Update Your Code to Accept Strings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
6-64
What Are String Arrays? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-64
Recommended Approaches for String Adoption in Old APIs . . . . . . 6-64
How to Adopt String Arrays in Old APIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-66
Recommended Approaches for String Adoption in New Code . . . . . 6-66
How to Maintain Compatibility in New Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-67
How to Manually Convert Input Arguments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-68
How to Check Argument Data Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-68
Terminology for Character and String Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-70
Function Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6-72
Dates and Time
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Represent Dates and Times in MATLAB . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-2
Specify Time Zones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-5
Convert Date and Time to Julian Date or POSIX Time . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-7
Set Date and Time Display Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-10
Formats for Individual Date and Duration Arrays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-10
datetime Display Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-10
duration Display Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-11
calendarDuration Display Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-11
Default datetime Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-12
Generate Sequence of Dates and Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-14
Sequence of Datetime or Duration Values Between Endpoints with
Step Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-14
Add Duration or Calendar Duration to Create Sequence of Dates . . 7-16
Specify Length and Endpoints of Date or Duration Sequence . . . . . 7-17
Sequence of Datetime Values Using Calendar Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-17
Share Code and Data Across Locales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-20
Write Locale-Independent Date and Time Code . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-20
Write Dates in Other Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-21
Read Dates in Other Languages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-21
Extract or Assign Date and Time Components of Datetime Array . . 7-23
Combine Date and Time from Separate Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-26
Date and Time Arithmetic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-28
Compare Dates and Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-33
Plot Dates and Durations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-36
Line Plot with Dates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-36
Line Plot with Durations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-37
Scatter Plot with Dates and Durations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7-39
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