MATLAB: Import .csv that has the characters ‘-‘

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I have an .csv file as you can see below and was wondering how to import it into matlab. 'csvread' wont work from what I've tried. Thanks for any help you might offer.
Date,Open,High,Low,Close,Volume
  23-Mar-10,40.90,41.50,40.74,41.30,44335408
  22-Mar-10,38.90,41.03,38.80,40.40,50007926
  19-Mar-10,40.30,40.50,39.00,39.00,55803035
  18-Mar-10,40.90,40.90,40.00,40.20,35021589
  17-Mar-10,41.00,41.70,39.90,40.50,68063581
  16-Mar-10,39.50,40.68,39.20,40.50,54320539
  15-Mar-10,38.80,39.40,38.30,38.90,63595754

Best Answer

Not tested:
    fid = fopen( 'filename.csv' );
    cac = textscan( fid, '%s%f%f%f%f%f', 'delimiter', ',', 'headerlines', 1 ) 
    fclose(fid);
and
    sdn = datenum( cac{1}, 'dd-mmm-yy' );
.
See: Text Files, Delimited or formatted I/O to text files
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