datestr generating different string

I have an array with days, months and years. This is my string

[myd '/' mym '/' myy]
ans =
20/01/2014

But datestr generates this

datestr([myd '/' mym '/' myy])
ans =
06-Jul-0025

Any clue?

Thanks

Answer 1

[Chad Greene]

How about

myy = 2014; 
mym = 1; 
myd = 20; 
datestr(datenum(myy,mym,myd),'dd/mm/yyyy')

ans = '20/01/2014'

[Simon Lind]

myy, mym and myd are 'char'

I did

mystr = datestr(datenum(str2num(myy),str2num(mym),str2num(myd)),'dd/mm/yyyy')
ans = 
21/03/2014

but

datevec(mystr)
ans = 
26     9     4     0     0     0

[Chad Greene]

How's this?

datestr(datenum(string([myd '/' mym '/' myy]),'dd/mm/yyyy'))

[Simon Lind]

I just removed the 'string' and now it works

datestr(datenum(([myd '/' mym '/' myy]),'dd/mm/yyyy'))

thank you very much!