textscan format string for hours:minutes

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munching 2020-8-12
编辑： Stephen23 2020-8-12
Dear community,
While trying to get some time data from a .txt file with textscan() function I came across multiple issues. So I simplified my example to this:
txt = '00:01';
result = textscan(txt, '%{mm:ss}T');
And here is the result:
??? Error using ==> textscan
Badly formed format string.
Error in ==> example at 2
result = textscan(txt, '%{mm:ss}T');
Also tried %{mm:ss}D with the same result.
I'm very new to MATLAB, any help will be much appreciated.
Also, could this be because I'm using a very old version (R2007b)?
Thanks
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munching
munching 2020-8-12
Thank you very much, this explains my issue. Matlab docs on textscan() says "Introduced before R2006a" so I though it should work.
Stephen23
Stephen23 2020-8-12
编辑：Stephen23 2020-8-12
"Matlab docs on textscan() says "Introduced before R2006a" so I though it should work."
The date at the bottom of the documentation page of most functions gives the MATLAB Release when the function was first available. However with any following Release afterwards a function can gain new features, change the order of its arguments, change the default behavior, etc. etc.
The documented behavior of your installed MATLAB Release is given in the installed documentation (i.e. help). You will find that your installed help does not mention datetime or duration classes (they don't exist) or the syntax that you tried to use with textscan. The online is certainly interesting to read, but it applies to the most current MATLAB Release, not the one you have installed.

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hosein Javan
hosein Javan 2020-8-12
编辑：hosein Javan 2020-8-12
this works for me. I'm using 2016a.
txt = '00:01';
result = textscan(txt, '%{mm:ss}D')
result =
[00:01]
if you can't do this with your matlab. you can try to import the data as matrix rather than date and time format.
txt = '00:01';
% first colomn = mm, second column =ss
result = textscan(txt, '%d:%d')
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munching
munching 2020-8-12
Thank you for your answer. I'm okay having number of seconds as integer so I'll just modify the other part where the data comes from.

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