MATLAB: Passing datenum a column vector

datenum

Hi, I have a column vector of dates in yyyymmdd format e.g.
19961016
19961017
19961018
19961021
19961022
19961023
19961024
Is there a way to convert each entry into a serial date number and have a column vector of serial date numbers back?
thanks friz

Best Answer

d=[19961016
19961017
19961018
19961021
19961022
19961023
19961024];
d=num2str(d)-0;
Y=str2num(char(d(:,1:4)));
M=str2num(char(d(:,5:6)));
D=str2num(char(d(:,7:8)));
sd=datenum(Y,M,D)
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