finding multiple datetime cells from a table

Is there a way that I can find a week of data from a table by inputing only a starting date (2020/04/06) and finding the corresponding next 6 days

The table looks something like this:

126540	2020/04/06 00:08	0	5.7															
126541	2020/04/06 00:23	0	6.9															
126542	2020/04/06 00:38	0	8.2															
126543	2020/04/06 00:53	0	8.9															
126544	2020/04/06 01:19	1		11.0																												
126551	2020/04/06 02:23	0	10.6	
126740	2020/04/07 05:16	0	10.9															
126741	2020/04/07 05:39	1		10.9														
126743	2020/04/07 05:31	0	11.2	
126963	2020/04/08 10:24	0	14.6															
126964	2020/04/08 10:39	0	14.4	

etc.

And my code:

T = readtable('testdata.txt');
k = find(ismember(T.Var2,'2020/04/06')); %find the date
k2 = find(ismember(T.Var2,'2020/04/07'));
k3 = find(ismember(T.Var2,'2020/04/08'));
k4 = find(ismember(T.Var2,'2020/04/09'));
k5 = find(ismember(T.Var2,'2020/04/10'));
k6 = find(ismember(T.Var2,'2020/04/11'));
k7 = find(ismember(T.Var2,'2020/04/12'));

I need to extract all the rows within that week by just inputing the starting day of that week.

would be much appreciated with any help.

Answer 1

[Walter Roberson]

Convert to timetable and use a timerange() https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/timerange.html

The end date would be the start date + days(6)