Importing time values into matlab in format hh:mm without converting to demical

Hello,

How can you import time values in the format hh:mm (i.e. 09:31 21:13) in a text file into matlab?

When I load like them in using this command, they get converted to decimal.

time=load('time.txt');

I also would like to plot a histogram of them.

Many thanks

John

Does the file consist of *one* line with *many* character strings of the format "hh:ss", which are separated by *one* space?

Hello,

The file is a text file consisting of one one column of 'time' values like this:

10:43
08:23
19:56
20:29
01:33

Thank you for the help

Answer 1

Do not use load() for this.

I do not know if importdata will work.

You can use textscan()

Your answer here might be useful: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/24523-reading-dates-and-time

Hello,

Thank you, apologies but I'm only learning how to use matlab.

What would the correct syntax be for this problem using textscan()

Many thanks

We would need to know the format of the lines in order to show you the textscan() format. The link Elige posted should give you some ideas.

Hello,

I looked at that link but that poster was importing dates and time and some other date, I just have times.

The times are all in one column in this format

12:57:00
15:19:00
08:07:00
10:36:00

I'm sorry if it an easy question but I just don't know what to type.

Thank you