Split individual cell into multiple cells

I have a variable that I've imported into my workspace which has the following format:

TIMESTAMP

20100101

20100102

20100103

etc

How can I split the individual cells so that they are individual variables with only the year, month or day? As in: 2010

2010

2010 and

01

02

03

etc.

Thanks a bunch! K

Answer 1

[Kate]

Answered my own question and will post for anyone who has the same issue. datevec extracts the month and day. Example:

t=datevec(TIMESTAMP)

55004  10  29  0  0  0
55004  10  30  0  0  0
55004  10  31  0  0  0
55004  11  1  0  0  0
55004  11  2  0  0  0

Then just reference specific columns of t. As in:

Month=t(:, 2);