MATLAB: How to extract date and time that not in datetime format

Question

File name example

20160914_565w081_Laurel_Washingtondc_jb_jr_161451_001.mat

20160914 date 161451 time

The position of the date and time in the file name will be the same for all files. The file name data is a string stored in a cell

I need to create a time series (e.g. ts = timeseries(data,time) creates the time-series object using the specified data and time.) using the date and time from the file name as the ts.TimeInfo.StartDate

How do I extract the date and time from the file name to appear in the format of the the StartDate property.

ts.TimeInfo.StartDate = '10/27/2005 07:05:36';

Answer 1

dates = cellfun( @(S) datetime(S([1:8, 44:49]), 'InputFormat', 'yyyyMMddHHmmss', 'Format', 'MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss'), FileNamesCell );