How do I convert a string to a date?

I have a txt file with dates in the following form:

200309302300

200309302310

200309302320

......etc

How can I convert these strings into date form?

something like : 2003-Sep-30 23:00 or 2003-09-30 23:00

Answer 1

[Star Strider]

I am not certain if the numbers are themselves strings, or numbers.

If they are numbers, this works:

numdate = [200309302300
           200309302310
           200309302320];

dn = datenum(num2str(numdate), 'yyyymmddHHMM')                  % Date Numbers
dv = datevec(dn)
dt = datetime(num2str(numdate), 'InputFormat','yyyyMMddHHmm')   % ‘datetime’ Array

If they are strings, omit the str2num calls and just insert them directly.

[ARGY B]

Thank you :)

[Star Strider]

As always, my pleasure!