How to extract a column numerical data as strings?

I have some data stored in xlsx format. There is always a column data called "Station IDs". Sometimes it is numerical and sometimes it is strings. I'm using readtable to read the xlsx file.

T=readtable('test.xlsx');

My program can automaticall identifically the column numer (n). I can get the whole column of data as:

A = T.(n); 

Here is my question. How do I get the column values as strings no matter it is originally numerical or strings.

Thanks.

Answer 1

[madhan ravi]

A = string(T.(n)); % have to use string(...) :)

[KALYAN ACHARJYA]

yes

[Leon]

Many thanks!

It works flawlessly.