Ok so this one is bugging me a little and hopefully someone has come across this particular issue before:
I have an Arduino thats logging sensor data and i have it dumping the serial data to a log file for parsing and analysis. Part of the log data is the timestamp (as I assume many people would use.)
(Note: I am aware of the Arduino tools for matlab, I have chosen to route the data this way for specific reasons)
Now, I have the data extracted into MATLAB fine, the timestamp and associated data points drop in a table upon extraction and I am able to manipulate the raw numbers without issue. HOWEVER! The timestamp is obviously in a format that MATLAB does not immediate recognize. To compensate for this I used table2array() then extractBetween() to carve out the specific hh:mm:ss portion of the data into a new array variable.
var_timestamp_raw = data(:,1);
var_timestamp_array = table2array(var_timestamp_raw)
var_timestamp_data = extractBetween(var_timestamp_array, 13, 20)
This is where is gets problematic. The data is still sitting there like a srtring and I then removed the remaining punctuation, to get int values but there you see the problem is that the values are no longer representative of a real time stamp.
"[2020-11-07 14:35:52.417] "
"[2020-11-07 14:35:52.418] "
"[2020-11-07 14:35:52.418] "
"[2020-11-07 14:35:52.418] "
"[2020-11-07 14:35:52.418] "
"[2020-11-07 14:35:52.418] "
"[2020-11-07 14:35:52.418] "
So basically, my conundrum: Take this column of data (as shown above) and be able to use it as a plotable value against the sensor data im capturing at the same time.
I have read so many variations of working with timestamps my head is honestly starting to spin as everyone has a differnet take on it.
I need as simply as is possible, the timestamp data converted into a value I can plot against... Does anyone have any ideas?
