Splitting a string of numbers into two seperate strings.

I have a (n,1) array of Dates and Times, I want to seperate the Date from the Time so I can easily identify the Day and the Time on other functions.

an example of this data is.. Data(1,1)='01/01 01:00:00', Data(2,1)= '01/01 02:00:00' and so on.

I would like it so that I can split this data into something of the sort:

For i=1:length(Data)

Time(i)=strsplit(Data(i),' ');

Date(i)=strsplit(Data(i),' ');

end

Where the Time is just the time portion of the string and the Date Array is just the Date of the string.

Ive tried using strsplit but am not very familiar with the way the function works. Any help on this would be aprecciated.

Thank you.

[Stephen23]

"...so I can easily identify the Day and the Time on other functions."

Using DATETIME objects would be much better than fiddling around with text:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/datetime.html

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/date-and-time-operations.html

Answer 1

[Benjamin Thompson]

The datetime function is very flexible:

datetime('01/01 01:00:00', 'InputFormat', 'MM/yy HH:mm:SS')

ans =

datetime

01-Jan-2001 01:00:00

It can convert an array of strings also. Then you can work with the objects as datetime objects.

[Dillon Trimmell]

thank you for the reponse, Although I am no so much looking to change the diplay of the data, but just seperating the time and the day. In bigger picture I want to be able to plot hourly rate of energy usgae and I would like to have an array of just the time.

thanks

[Stephen23]

"...I want to be able to plot hourly rate of energy usgae and I would like to have an array of just the time."

Using DATETIME would likely make that easier than fiddling around with text.

[Benjamin Thompson]

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