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Contents

Index

• Getting Started

• User's Guide

• Functions

• Desktop Tools and Development Environment

• Data Import and Export

• Mathematics

• Data Analysis

• Programming and Data Types

• Data Types

• Data Type Conversion

• Operators and Special Characters

• Strings

• Bit-Wise Operations

• Logical Operations

• Relational Operations

• Set Operations

• Date and Time Operations

• Programming in MATLAB

• Object-Oriented Programming

• Graphics

• 3-D Visualization

• GUI Development

• External Interfaces

• Examples

• Release Notes

date - Current date string

Syntax

str = date

Description

str = date returns a string containing the date in dd-mmm-yyyy format.

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date - Current date string

Syntax

Description

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