error in using year()
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I typed exactly the same code as in the reference provided below:
Year = year('05-Aug-2003')
and I get
Year =
2002
2002
2002
2002
2002
2002
2002
2002
2002
2002
2002
Why is that? Thanks.
Reference:
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Fangjun Jiang
on 29 Feb 2016
what is the version of the Financial Toolbox?
ver('finance')
which -all year
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Fangjun Jiang
on 1 Mar 2016
Edited: Fangjun Jiang
on 1 Mar 2016
There must be a variable called "year" in the workspace. Try this:
year=2002*ones(120,1);
Year = year('05-Aug-2003')
It got your answer.
Try this
year=1:120;
Year=year('05-Aug-2003')
Year =
48 53 45 65 117 103 45 50 48 48 51
notice
>> double('05-Aug-2003')
ans =
48 53 45 65 117 103 45 50 48 48 51
It turned out it converted the string '05-Aug-2003' into double numbers and used the numbers to index the existing matrix "year". The size of "year" happens to be large enough so the "Index exceeds matrix dimensions" error didn't happen.
I don't like this behavior.
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