MATLAB: Converting number to date number

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I have a column of dates that are number (double format) such as 19940127 how can i convert it to matlab numeric date that corresponds to 1994/01/27?

One approach:

dd = 19940127;
out = datestr(datenum(num2str(dd, '%d'), 'yyyymmdd'), 'yyyy/mm/dd')
out =
1994/01/27

To get the date number, just use part of that:

out_dn = datenum(num2str(dd, '%d'), 'yyyymmdd')

EDIT — Added ‘out_dn’.

For each date, use a command like this:

datestr(datenum('19940127','yyyymmdd'),'mm/dd/yyyy')

t = datetime(DateStrings,'InputFormat','dd/MM/yyyy');