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Re: datenum does not understand num2str
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Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson |
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Re: datenum does not understand num2str |
Date: |
Mon, 2 Apr 2012 10:56:36 +0000 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Sun, Apr 01, 2012 at 07:52:20PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> If this is a bug, I can file it. But just thought I will check here first as
> it seems to be very basic.
>
> Using octave 3.2.4 on Debian Wheezy
>
> $octave -qf
> octave:1> datenum('20120401', 'yyyymmdd')
> ans = 734960
> octave:2> datenum(num2str(20120401), 'yyyymmdd')
> error: datevec: date not parsed correctly with given format
> error: called from:
> error: /usr/share/octave/3.2.4/m/time/datevec.m at line 140, column 11
> error: /usr/share/octave/3.2.4/m/time/datenum.m at line 75, column 25
> octave:2>
>
> FWIW, the command works under matlab 7.9.1.671 (R2009b) Service Pack 1.
>
> If I am guessing correctly, the format of the output from num2str cannot be
> parsed correctly by datenum. Worth fixing or is there a work around?
datenum(num2str(20120104, 8), 'yyyymmdd')
Oli