How to import a txt file with the format 'Di 02.07.1991 1718,02'

How to import the file without the weekday, probably change from dd.mm.yyyy to mm/dd/yyyy or datenum and change the decimal separator from ',' to '.'.

Answer 1

[dpb]

fmt='%s %2d.%2d.%4d %4d,%2';

Build the time value as the next_to_last_column_value*100+last_column_value

Alternatively, read the whole file into memory as character array and do a global substitution for the comma with a period and then parse from memory with

fmt='%s %2d.%2d.%4d %f';