M={'01/01/2013' 2 'a'
'01/02/2013' 3 'b'
'01/03/2013' 4 'c'
'01/01/2013' 2 'a'
'01/02/2013' 2 'b'
'01/03/2013' 4 'c'}
day=2;
idx=ismember(cell2mat(M(:,2)),day)
out=M(idx,:)
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