MATLAB: Divide cell array into date and time columns

seperate cell array columns

I have a cell array with 6 columns and 10000 rows. The first column contains date and time in the format eg. '31/12/2001 12:57:03'. I want to seperate the first column into two seperate columns, one for date and the other for time. Then I want to convert the date to dateserial number.
thanks

Best Answer

temp = regexp(YourCellArray(:,1), '\s+', 'split');
datecol = cellfun(@(C) C{1}, temp, 'uniform', 0);
timecol = cellfun(@(C) C{2}, temp, 'uniform', 0)
serialdates = datenum(datecol);
If you do not actually need the time column, then this can be abbreviated down to
serialdates = datenum( regexprep(YourCellArray(:,1), '\s.*', '') );
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