Pulling a specific element out of a cell?

I have imported a file into my script which included a header. I was able to pull a specific line from my header that reads: ";Start_time, 2007-01-01, 00:48:23.729". This is now a 1x1 cell. I want to be able to indicate and use the date and time stamps separatly. How do I do this?

Answer 1

[Adam Danz]

To convert an array of file names to datetime

d = {
';Start_time, 2007-01-01, 00:48:23.729'
';Start_time, 2007-02-01, 00:48:23.729'
';Start_time, 2007-03-01, 00:48:23.729'
';Start_time, 2007-04-01, 00:48:23.729'
';Start_time, 2007-05-01, 00:48:23.729'
';Start_time, 2007-06-01, 00:48:23.729'}; 

% Remove stuff at beginning
d = strrep(d, ';Start_time, ', ''); 
% convert to datetime (use 'Format' property to specify format of output)
dates = datetime(d,'InputFormat','yyyy-MM-dd, hh:mm:ss.S');

% RESULT:
  6×1 datetime array
   01-Jan-2007 00:48:23
   01-Feb-2007 00:48:23
   01-Mar-2007 00:48:23
   01-Apr-2007 00:48:23
   01-May-2007 00:48:23
   01-Jun-2007 00:48:23

[Grace]

What if I have a bunch of similar files being flipped thrpugh in a for loop and I want it to extract each of the start times and have them returned as a vector?

[Adam Danz]

I just updated my anser to address that.