Copy numbers by its position on cells from a textdata

Dear all, i have a textdata from an .CSV. at following form. My cell file is time=( 12:11:23.4; 12:11:23.8; 12:11:24.0; 12:11:24.6; 12:11:25.2; etc) How can i create for example dsec=( 4; 8; 0; 6; 2; etc) on different cells in the same column? I tried cellfun(@(x) x(9),time(cellfun('length',time)),'un',0) but it takes only the first value 4 and puts it into every cell in the whole column. dsec=( 4 4 4etc)

Answer 1

[Azzi Abdelmalek]

time={'12:11:23.4'
  '12:11:23.8'
  '12:11:24.0'
  '12:11:24.6'
  '12:11:25.2'}
out=cellfun(@(x)  str2num(x{1}),regexp(time,'(?<=\.).+','match'))

%or for your case

a=char(time)
b=str2num(a(:,10))

[Kostas P]

for God! it works!! thanks a lot Mr. Abdelmalek

[Kostas P]

well, with out=cellfun(@(x)..... how can i copy also the first and second element? fourth fifth etc