I wanted the MODIS granule name from the long list of MYD35_L2. The year and daynum-hhmmss etc mattered so that I could do a pattern match.
This is an easy fix.
This is an easy fix.
[token, remain] = strsplit(scene5a{i}, 'MYD35_L2.A');
modname = token{2};
ahr = str2double(modname(9:10));
amin = str2double(modname(11:12));
mday = str2double(modname(5:7));
year = str2double(modname(1:4));
obsday = yearday(year,mday);
dofm = str2double(datestr(obsday,7));
mth = str2double(datestr(obsday,5));
MODobs(c) = datenum(year,mth,dofm,ahr,amin,0);