How to convert this string to a datetime?

Hi! Unfortunately, MATLAB is not allowing me to convert this series of strings of date to a datetime series. Can anyone please help?

D = ['2003/06/24'
'2003/07/10'
'2003/07/10'
'2003/07/10'
'2003/07/18'
'2003/07/26'
'2003/08/03'
'2003/08/11'
'2003/08/19'
'2003/08/27'];

Any feedback will be greatly appreciated!

[Steven Lord]

Can you show the command you're using to try to perform this conversion and describe what "not allowing" means in this context?

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[Ashfaq Ahmed]

Thank you so much! It works. The reason why it wasn't working the previous time is -- all the strings I showed here were a column of a table. So, I first used the function table2array, and then used Stephen's code!

Answer 1

[Stephen23]

D = ['2003/06/24'
    '2003/07/10'
    '2003/07/10'
    '2003/07/10'
    '2003/07/18'
    '2003/07/26'
    '2003/08/03'
    '2003/08/11'
    '2003/08/19'
    '2003/08/27'];
T = datetime(D, 'inputformat','u/M/d')

T = 10×1 datetime array
   24-Jun-2003
   10-Jul-2003
   10-Jul-2003
   10-Jul-2003
   18-Jul-2003
   26-Jul-2003
   03-Aug-2003
   11-Aug-2003
   19-Aug-2003
   27-Aug-2003

[Ashfaq Ahmed]

Thank you so much! It works. The reason why it wasn't working the previous time is -- all the strings I showed here were a column of a table. So, I first used the function table2array, and then used your code!

[Stephen23]

"So, I first used the function table2array.."

It is simpler and more efficient to use basic indexing:

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/matlab_prog/access-data-in-a-table.html