datetime InputFormat error in R2021b

Hello,

I'm just trying to specify an input format for datetime(). Even running exemple code i get an error:

DateStrings = {'2014-05-26';'2014-08-03'};
t = datetime(DateStrings,'InputFormat','yyyy-MM-dd')

I get the error:

"Array formation and parentheses-style indexing with objects of class 'timerange' is not allowed. Use objects of class 'timerange' only as scalars or use a cell array."

My format case would be for a string as: '20050101_0010'

for which format would be: 'yyyyMMdd_HHmm'. I get the same error.

Does anyone know what's wrong?

Thanks in advance.

[Pol Cardona Rubio]

Just closing and openning matlab again solved it. So strange.

Answer 1

[Jan]

I guess, that you have defined "datetime" as a variable by accident.

datetime = timerange('12/18/2015 08:00:00', '12/18/2015 12:00:00');
S = {'2014-05-26'; '2014-08-03'};
t = datetime(S, 'InputFormat', 'yyyy-MM-dd')

Array formation and parentheses-style indexing with objects of class 'timerange' is not allowed. Use objects of class 'timerange' only as scalars or use a cell array.

Restarting Matlab cleared the variable called datetime implicitly.

You can check this in the future, if a command behaves strangely:

whos
which datetime -all

[Pol Cardona Rubio]

Thanks Jan!!