Import .csv that has the characters '-'

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Raldi
Raldi on 23 Mar 2014
Edited: per isakson on 23 Mar 2014
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

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per isakson
per isakson on 23 Mar 2014
Edited: per isakson on 23 Mar 2014
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' );
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