Remove quotation sign from values in cell

I have a 730x1 cell looking like this:

'1.3'

'1.0'

'0.2'

'0.9'

'-0.4'

'-1.0'

>> u{1}

ans =

'1.3'

How do I remove the quotation signs?

[Stephen23]

"How do I remove the quotation signs?"

You can't, because they are not there. They are just an artifact of how character arrays are displayed.

And just to make it clear, Star Strider's answer does not "remove" any quotation signs from text data, it actually converts text data into numeric (just as the STR2DOUBLE documentation explains).

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

Without knowing more, see if the str2double funciton will do what you want.

[Joel]

Perfect, thank you

[Star Strider]

As always, my pleasure!