Passing datenum a column vector?

Hi, I have a column vector of dates in yyyymmdd format e.g.

19961016

19961017

19961018

19961021

19961022

19961023

19961024

Is there a way to convert each entry into a serial date number and have a column vector of serial date numbers back?

thanks friz

Answer 1

[Paulo Silva]

d=[19961016
19961017
19961018
19961021
19961022
19961023
19961024];

d=num2str(d)-0;
Y=str2num(char(d(:,1:4)));
M=str2num(char(d(:,5:6)));
D=str2num(char(d(:,7:8)));
sd=datenum(Y,M,D)

[friz]

Works well. Thanks!!

Answer 2

[Andrei Bobrov]

more

sd = datenum(num2str(d),'yyyymmdd')