How to convert a cell array of strings to numerical values I can plot?

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I'm importing data of temperature and magnetic moment and the data import tool imports my selection as a cell array of strings when it has numerical data as you can see in the attached files.
So far I've tried to plot the cell arrays using
plot(Temperature,moment)
plot(Temperature(:,1),moment(:,1))
but it doesn't work because they are strings, not numbers.
So I tried cell2mat and then tried plotting the results and it didn't work either and this time I'm confused as to why it didn't work. In any case, I open up my converted cell2mat variables and I just copy paste the numerical values and paste them into another manually created matrix and this time it works, but this seems a very annoying and frankly ineffective way of plotting my data since I have several data sets that I need to look over.
I've also tried
num2str('Temperature(:,1)')
hoping that this would convert the strings to numbers but it didn't work either.
What's the fastest way to import my data and plot it?

Accepted Answer

Azzi Abdelmalek
Azzi Abdelmalek on 28 Jul 2014
T=str2double(Temperature);
M=str2double(moment);
plot(T,M)

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