how to modify a structure?

Hello. I initialize (instantiate) a structure like this:

YourStruct = struct(...
'Date', {cell(2208,1)}, ...
'Hour', {zeros(2208,1)}, ...
'DryBulb', {zeros(2208,1)}, ...
'DewPnt', {zeros(2208,1)}, ...
'SYSLoad', {zeros(2208,1)}, ...
'NumDate', {zeros(2208,1)});

'Date' has 92 days, and 'Hour' has 24 hours, from 1 to 24. How can I express 'Date' and 'Hour' in serial date numbers and how do I present these serial date numbers in 'NumDate'? Thank you.

[Image Analyst]

Please format properly (as Code).

[UPT]

please Image Analyst,can you be more specific?(sorry but i'm a begginer in MATLAB).thanks

[Walter Roberson]

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/13205-tutorial-how-to-format-your-question-with-markup

[UPT]

thank for your suggestions Walter Robinson..:)

[Walter Roberson]

Please go back and edit your original posting to mark-up the code there.

Note: there is no "i" in my username.

[UPT]

sorry again for my mistakes Walter Roberson: here is my new post:

data = struct('Date', {cell(2208,1)}, 'Hour', {zeros(2208,1)}, 'DryBulb', {zeros(2208,1)}, 'DewPnt', {zeros(2208,1)}, 'SYSLoad', {zeros(2208,1)}, 'NumDate', {zeros(2208,1)});

'Date' has 92 days and 'Hour' has 24 hours,from 1 to 24.how can i express 'Date' and 'Hour' in serial date numbers and to present these serial date numbers in 'NumDate'?

[Walter Roberson]

Blank line before and after the code. Indent the code.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

NumDate = Data.Date + (Data.Hour - 1) / 24;

[Walter Roberson]

Wait -- what exactly does the Date cell contain?

[UPT]

Date cell contains the dates from 1 July 2011-31 September 2011

[Walter Roberson]

As strings? If so then use datenum() to convert them to serial date numbers and add (Hour-1)/24

[UPT]

for each day i want to have 24 date serial numbers (a date serial number for each hour).could please you tell me how i can do that?...note:im a new user in matlab and i make some basic mistakes,so dont be upset if i dont understand all what you say..anyway,this is the fourth time you help me and im very grateful to you..:)

[Walter Roberson]

Your Hour field is the same length as your Date field, which suggests you want exactly 1 hour conversion for each Date converted, rather than wanting to create 24 hour conversions for each Date converted.

data.NumDate = datenum(Data.Date) + (Data.Hour - 1) / 24;

except that you might need to add an additional parameter to datenum() in order to indicate the date format.