Transform into a Matlab datetime format

I have an entry "2017-10-26 06-PM" How can I transform this entry into a datetime format that Matlab can understand?

Answer 1

[Sean de Wolski]

datetime("2017-10-26 06-PM",'InputFormat','yyyy-MM-dd hh-aa')

doc: https://www.mathworks.com/help/releases/R2018a/matlab/ref/datetime.html#d119e206701

[alpedhuez]

Thank you. I have a table A with the entries of the first column are of the format "2017-10-26 06-PM." How can I transform this first column into datetime format?

[Guillaume]

exactly the same way:

yourtable.columnname = datetime(yourtable.columname, 'InputFormat', 'yyyy-MM-dd hh-aa')

[alpedhuez]

Great help.