Date picker in app designer

Hi there, I have recently started designing apps with App Designer and I am new to this.

So my app is supposed to handle financial calculation i.e set up amortisation tables for loans etc.

So I have two date pickers one for the start date and the other for the end-date. I have written a function that calculates the duration between two dates using years(d2-d2) but now when I try to display the date on an edit field { app.TermtoDate.Value = app.numberofperiods} I get an error message saying the value must be a double....

here is my code:

function Duration11(app,d1,d2)

start = datestr(d1)

enddate = datestr(d2)

app.numberofperiods = years (enddate-start)

**where numberofperiods is initiated as a property

I called this function under a buton callback

Answer 1

[Mohammad Sami]

You are converting date into string using datestr. You can directly subtract the date time object. years(d2-d1)

[Ayabonga Plandeyishi]

Thanks Mohammad, now is there a way to store a date in a list or vector for later use?

[Mohammad Sami]

Yes you can have arrays of datetime. You can read the documentation for more details.

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/datetime.html