MATLAB: Help with Sorting cell

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Hi i have the following cell test
'Apr1'
'Apr10'
'Apr11'
'Apr12'
'Apr13'
'Apr14'
'Apr15'
'Apr17'
'Apr18'
'Apr19'
'Apr20'
'Apr21'
'Apr22'
'Apr23'
'Apr24'
'Apr25'
'Apr29'
'Apr30'
'Apr8'
'Apr9'
can someone tell me how to sort it so that I get the following result
    'Apr1'
    'Apr8'
    'Apr9'
    'Apr10'
    'Apr11'
    'Apr12'
    'Apr13'
    'Apr14'
    'Apr15'
    'Apr17'
    'Apr18'
    'Apr19'
    'Apr20'
    'Apr21'
    'Apr22'
    'Apr23'
    'Apr24'
    'Apr25'
    'Apr29'
    'Apr30'

Best Answer

Download my FEX submission natsort, and simply use it like this:
test = natsort(test)
where test is your cell array. You might also be interested in natsortfiles, which is written specifically for sorting filenames and path names.
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