How to extract cell array in matlab

Hello.. Anyone does know? I need to extract from cell array (1x1 cell). For example > '22.11.2011 13:58:56.16' from this (1x1 cell).I want to extract time in second (:56) .How can I do. Thanks.

Answer 1

[Fangjun Jiang]

c={'22.11.2011 13:58:56.16','22.11.2011 13:58:40.16'};
d=datevec(c);
floor(d(:,6))

[Mr Smart]

Thanks for help :)

Answer 2

[Sven]

If you have strings of dates, use datevec as follows:

[Y, M, D, H, MN, S] = datevec('22.11.2011 13:58:56.16');

You'll notice that S has the value "56.1600", so floor(S) gives you the seconds

[Mr Smart]

Thanks you, Sven

Answer 3

[Andrei Bobrov]

out = datevec({'22.11.2011 13:58:56.16'},'dd.mm.yyyy HH:MM:SS')
out = out(end)

OR

out = sprintf(':%d',out(end))

[Sven]

Oh, 3 answers within minutes. Who will get the "accept" from Mr. Smart. The suspense is killing me!

;-)

[Walter Roberson]

Mine will! None of the rest of you noticed that the ':' was a mandatory part of the output!

[Andrei Bobrov]

@Sven: Walter :)

[Mr Smart]

Thanks to you also . :)

Answer 4

[Walter Roberson]

> datestr(datenum({'22.11.2011 13:58:56.16'},'dd.mm.yyyy HH:MM:SS.FFF'),':SS')
ans =
:56

>> char(cellfun(@(T) T(end-5:end-3), {'22.11.2011 13:58:56.16'},'Uniform',0))
ans =
:56

[Walter Roberson]

Based upon the previous answers, the following should also work:

datestr(datevec({'22.11.2011 13:58:56.16'}),':SS')

[Mr Smart]

Thanks you, Walter