datestr format in lower case

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Natalia
Natalia on 19 Apr 2011
Hello all, I want to express my serial date number in the form of 'ddd, mmm, yyyy', with ddd and mmm in lower case, but matlab is giving me back the date with the first letter of the day/month capitalized. How can I change it to lower case?

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Arnaud Miege
Arnaud Miege on 19 Apr 2011
Can you use the lower function to convert the string to lowercase?
HTH,
Arnaud

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Jan
Jan on 19 Apr 2011
lowerDate = lower(datestr(now, 'ddd, mmm, yyyy'))
Or much faster with manual conversion:
function Str = DateStrFormat(Num)
month = ['jan'; 'feb'; 'mar'; 'apr'; 'may'; 'jun'; ...
'jul'; 'aug'; 'sep'; 'oct'; 'nov'; 'dec'];
day = ['mon'; 'tue'; 'wed'; 'thu'; 'fri'; 'sat', 'sun'];
[y, m, d] = datevecmx(Num);
Str = sprintf('%s, %s, %.4d', ...
day(rem(floor(Num), 7) + 1), month(m), y);

Natalia
Natalia on 19 Apr 2011
Thanks both.

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