Hi, depending on the contents in the cell array, here are two examples. Mind the indexing into cell, you should use curly brackets to get the "contents" of the cell.
% Example for a character array with single element
a = '3.4';
str2num(a)
ans =
3.4000
str2double(a)
ans =
3.4000
% Example for character array with multiple elements
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