Converting time data to plot
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I imported an excel file (xlsread) and the time data turned into decimal form. I wrote the following code get a what I think is called a character array of just times.
um_time = num(:,1);
theDate = char(datetime(num_time,'ConvertFrom','excel')); % or 'excel1904'
theTimes = theDate(:,end-7:end);
The output for theTimes variable looks like this
val =
19:17:10
19:17:10
19:17:10
19:17:10
....
The problem that I have is that I can't use the variable theTimes in a plot function.
How can I turn theTimes values into a column vector of values that I can use to plot?
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After you convert to datetime, keep it in datetime format. There's no need to convert it to char.
From r2016b onward, you can use datetime objects in plot().
datetime(num_time,'ConvertFrom','excel')
Here's several of examples
[addendum]
If you're reading the dates in from excel you can read them in as datetime.
m = readmatrix('Dates.xlsx','OutputType','datetime');
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Ryan McBurney
2019-9-12
I just updated my answer to add another approach similar to yours.
If you're going to use readtable(), you could use the DateTimeType name-value input instead of doing the conversion in your comment above.
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