displaying date as title of figure

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hi, i want to display a date as title of a figure.
caption = sprintf(' %.3f', datestr(q{:,1}(1,1)));
This q cell array contains a dateserial number. When I display it as datestr then I get random numbers but not the actual date. How can I change that?

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Walter Roberson
Walter Roberson on 26 Oct 2017
caption = datestr(q{:,1}(1,1));
It is already text: you do not need to format it.

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Fangjun Jiang
Fangjun Jiang on 26 Oct 2017
The output of datestr() is already a string, so you don't need to use sprintf() anymore. Use datastr() directly.
If you still need to use sprintf(), then use '%s' instead of '%.3f'.

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