Removing first fewcharacters from a String

Question

Alexander Tollinger 2020-4-11

编辑： Ameer Hamza 2020-4-11

Hey guys i have simple problem,

i have the following string:

y= "TDS 2002C - 10:42:25 08.10.2011"

Now i want to trim the string, so that i only shows the date. Meaning 08.10.2011 , I dont need the rest of the string.

Can somebody help me ?

Regards,

Alex

Answer 1

Ameer Hamza 2020-4-11

编辑：Ameer Hamza 2020-4-11

If all the strings have the same format and date occurs at the end then following will work.

y = "TDS 2002C - 10:42:25   08.10.2011";
date = char(y);
date = string(date(end-9:end));

A general approach

y = "TDS 2002C - 10:42:25   08.10.2011";
date = regexp(y, '[0-9]{2}\.[0-9]{2}\.[0-9]{4}', 'match');