MATLAB: Converting yyyymmdd date to matlab date number

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I have a column of dates that have the following format: 19940127 how can i get a matlab number that corresponds to 01/27/1994?

For each date, use a command like this:

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

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’.

You need to pass in a string for datenum

datenum('20100815', 'yyyymmdd')