MATLAB: Datestr, add non-interpreted characters into format

cell arrayconvertdatenumdatestr

Hi, I have two cell-arrays containing values like
 7.345 * 10^5
 7.344 * 10^5
 2011-01-04_16h50m20s
 2010-11-30_07h00m02s
I want to concatenate both and sort the Cell-Array by time (found a function "sortcell" in File Exchange). But the Array first has to be of the same format, of course.
How can i achieve this? I thought of converting the datenum-integers to date-strings but I didn't get how to write "h" or something in my string, especially with cellstrings.
Thank you in advance.

Best Answer

data = {'2011-01-04_16h50m20s'
        '2010-11-30_07h00m02s'}
date2 = cellfun(@(x)[x{:}],regexp(data,'[-_hms]','split'),'un',0);
[ign,ind] = sort(datenum(date2,'yyyymmddHHMMSS'));
out = data(ind)
EDIT
[ign,ind] = sort(datenum(regexprep(data,'[-_hms]',''),'yyyymmddHHMMSS'));
out = data(ind)
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