Converting date string to number

I have a vector of the following format 01-Jul-1980 00:00:00 how can I convert to a matlab date number?

[Danielle Leblance]

Please find attached the vector that I am trying to convert

Answer 1

[Danielle Leblance]

I put it in excel and convert it to excel number then to matlab number using x2mdate function. So I have managed to find a way to go over it.

Answer 2

[Jan]

S = '01-Jul-1980 00:00:00';
datenum(S)    % Old
datetime(S)   % Modern

Answer 3

[Walter Roberson]

You have a datetime array. You can convert it to serial datenum using

datenum(issuedate)

Note that this is typically not required any more, but can be required for some plotting reasons from R2013b to R2015b.