how to convert character data to double?

Hi all,

i have a char array that has these values below, which i want to get a bouble array of it.

 01/04/2016
 02/04/2016
 03/04/2016
 04/04/2016
 .... %etc until 
 20/05/2016

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Answer 1

[madhan ravi]

Use

datenum() or datetime()

Example:

DateString =  ['01/04/2016';'02/04/2016';'03/04/2016';'04/04/2016';'20/05/2016'];
formatIn = 'mm/dd/yyyy';
datenum(DateString,formatIn)

datetime(DateString)

Use datetime as suggested by sir Walter

[Walter Roberson]

However in most cases we now recommend datetime instead of datenum.

[madhan ravi]

Thank you sir Walter

[Lilya]

Thank you so much it works! .. I do have another question I have also the attached figure data that I want to extract the specific rows from it depends on the dates those are represented as the first 8 column in the files.name stract. How can I use that? to get the finale files are from day 1 of April 2016 until 20th of May 2016. thanks for the help :)