Extracting data from a cell format

I got some data from an equimpment and the data comes like a xls file. Nevertheless, smartly, the equipment output mixes strings and numbers in one single cell. So the result I get when I call one data from the array is '0.00064 uA DC'. Because each data mixes strings and numbers the listed format in my workspace for this data is CELL. I have to extract the number in each data and indetify the 'uA' part to convert it to e-6. So when a call the variable I have this data: m = '0.00064 uA DC' (cell) And I would like to convert this into: m = 6.4e-10 (number) Help?

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Answer 1

[Clemens]

You can do the splitting with regexp.

It will look like:

    out = regexp(in , '([.0-9]+) (.*)','tokens')

This will give you cells where in the first should only be numbers and in the second the unit.

str2double can convert the first part into a number.

The string for the unit you can pick apart similar.