RE: Is it possible to load date values from CSV file?

[CdeMills]

Tim Rueth wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> But this code doesn't quite work, because I need to convert the cell data
> in
> column 2 to numbers, like a "cell2num" function which I couldn't find.
> 
> Question #1:  How do I assign numbers stored as cells in column 2 to just
> a
> normal number array?
> Question #2:  It looks like it's the datenum(char... part that is really
> slowing things down.  Is there a faster way to read in date strings and
> convert them to datenums?
> 
1) help cell2mat
2) if most dates are within a small range, convert the earliest one to a
datenum, and for the others compute the offset in days yourself.

Pascal
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