MATLAB: How to get the numeric value from text after parsing an xml file

Question

I use xml2struct to read the xml file into a structure. However, the format of all info are text. For example, attributes z='18' was read in as a text with 1 and 8.

How can I get the numeric 18 and use it for calculation?

Thanks…

Answer 1

I've run into this kind of thing. After calling xml2struct, "walk" the structure and use str2num on anything you want as a numeric instead of text.