How do I chage the format of an input data

I have a struct and when i add a new patient i ask the date of birthday

DemographicData(new_patient).Birthday=input('Birthday');

I want matlab to return the date in this format: 12-Dec-1998 for example

Answer 1

[Cris LaPierre]

Save the birthdates as datetimes. See this page for more. You can then set the display format so that it displays how you'd like.

DemographicData(1).Birthday=datetime('12/12/98','InputFormat','MM/dd/yy')

DemographicData = struct with fields:
    Birthday: 12-Dec-1998

DemographicData.Birthday.Format = 'dd-MMM-yyyy'

DemographicData = struct with fields:
    Birthday: 12-Dec-1998

The challenge will be that, with input, you have no control over how the user enters the date, so you can't make any assumptions on what the input format is.