MATLAB: Convert from datenum to yymmddHHMMSS

datenumMATLABserial date

I have a large list of dates which I previously converted from yymmddhhmmss format to datenum format using
dateFormat='yymmddHHMMSS';
date=datenum(date,dateFormat);
Now, at the end of a lot of processing, I'd like to reverse this process, to make presentation of my data more readable.
I have tried this:
formatOut='yymmddHHMMSS'; %convert datenum back to original filename format
short_files=datestr(short_files, formatOut); 
out=('short_files.csv'); %.csv filename with serialNo 
[~,fnm,ext]=fileparts(out);
out = sprintf('%s_%d%s',fnm,serialNo,ext);
dlmwrite(fullfile(path,out),short_files,'delimiter','');
and while this works in my list of variables, when I export to .csv, the values I get look like this:
1.90704E+11 .

Best Answer

dlmwrite() assumes that the inputs are numeric unless you specify the 'precision' option with a format code such as '%s'
You should 
outfile = fullfile(OutputDirectoryName, out);
fid = fopen(outfile, 'wt');
for K = 1 : size(short_files,1)
    fprintf(fid, '%s\n', short_files(K,:));
end
fclose(fid)
Or you should skip the problem by using datetime objects and tables and writetable()
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