Error using datevec function with trial version

Hello, i am using a trial version of matlab (i'm a student) and i want to use the 'datevec' function to convert date and time to vector of components. I have imported a data file in 'cell array' format but i have a error message

Error using datevec (line 103) The input to DATEVEC was not an array of character vectors. My friend tried exactly the same code but hasn't a trial version, and it worked out...

Could someone help me out?

Thnak you for your help!

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

I speculate that uiimport might be returning string() objects rather than cell array of characters. It would not surprise me if datevec does not accept the new string objects.

Try

   datevec( cellstr(A))

[Alix Mertens]

It worked! Thanks so much!