take jst the hour and munites from a vector

hi all!

i have a cellcontains time: hour:munites:second

 %%T=    
    '15:09:16'
    '15:09:17'
    '15:09:17'
    '15:09:18'
    '15:09:18'
    '15:09:18'
    '15:09:19'
    '15:09:19'
    '15:09:19'
    '15:09:20'
    '15:09:20'
    '15:09:20'

i want just the hours and minutes like this:

T= '15:09' '15:09' '15:09' '15:09' '15:09' '15:09' '15:09' '15:09' '15:09' '15:09' '15:09' '15:09'

Couls someone help?

Thank you all

Answer 1

[Guillaume]

There are many, many ways to do this, using cellfun, regexp, conversion to datevec or datetime, etc.

One way:

T = regexp(T, '\d+:\d+', 'match', 'once');