Reformatting Dates

Hi, I have dates in the format 12/01/2011. Is there a way to reformat these dates by removing the forward slashes? For example, I want 12/01/2011 to become 12012011. Thanks.

Answer 1

[Jan]

strrep is faster than regexprep:

a = '12/01/2011';
% Or a cell string also:
% a = {'12/01/2011', '12/01/2012'};
b = strrep(a, '/', '');

[Syed Abbas]

thanks!

Answer 2

[Friedrich]

Hi,

you can use regexprep for that:

>> a = '12/01/2011'

a =

12/01/2011

>> regexprep(a,'/','')

ans =

12012011

[Syed Abbas]

Thanks!