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jessicne
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Is it possible to convert from an alpha in the format mm/dd/yy hh:mm:ss to a datetime that includes all the time information in a define?

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Francis Mariani
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It most probably is possible.

Here is an example fex.

MY_ALPHA_DATE_TIME1 is the alpha column containing the date-time data.
TEMP_ALPHA_DATE_TIME1 strips the date-time separators and adds the century.
TEMP_DATE_TIME1 is the converted date-time column in YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS format
DEF_DATE_TIME1 is the converted date-time column in the desired format.

For some reason, using MM/DD/YYYY dates with HINPUT does not seem to work, see TEMP_ALPHA_DATE_TIME2 and DEF_DATE_TIME2.

To avoid problems, I always use dates in YYYY/MM/DD format.

-SET &ECHO='ON';

DEFINE FILE CAR
MY_ALPHA_DATE_TIME1/A23 WITH MODEL = '03/30/15 16:25:05';

TEMP_ALPHA_DATE_TIME1/A14 = '20' || EDIT(MY_ALPHA_DATE_TIME1, '$$$$$$99')
                                 || EDIT(MY_ALPHA_DATE_TIME1, '99') 
                                 || EDIT(MY_ALPHA_DATE_TIME1, '$$$99') 
                                 || EDIT(MY_ALPHA_DATE_TIME1, '$$$$$$$$$99$99$99');
TEMP_DATE_TIME1/HYYMDS    = HINPUT(14, TEMP_ALPHA_DATE_TIME1, 8, 'HYYMDS');
DEF_DATE_TIME1/HMDYS      = TEMP_DATE_TIME1;

TEMP_ALPHA_DATE_TIME2/A14 = EDIT(MY_ALPHA_DATE_TIME1, '99$99$2099$99$99$99');
DEF_DATE_TIME2/HMDYYS     = HINPUT(14, TEMP_ALPHA_DATE_TIME2, 8, 'HMDYYS');
END

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
MY_ALPHA_DATE_TIME1
TEMP_ALPHA_DATE_TIME1
TEMP_DATE_TIME1
DEF_DATE_TIME1

TEMP_ALPHA_DATE_TIME2
DEF_DATE_TIME2

WHERE RECORDLIMIT EQ 1
END
-RUN


Francis


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Alan B
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Straight into HINPUT works for me...
SET DEFCENT=19, YRTHRESH=20
DEFINE FILE CAR
A_DATE/A17  = '03/30/15 22:34:27';
D_DATE/HYYMDS = HINPUT(17,A_DATE,8,'HMDYS');
END
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT D_DATE
BY COUNTRY
END


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Francis Mariani
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Alan, yes it does! I don't know why I thought I needed to rearrange the date components - all my example code stripped the slashes and colons. Thanks for the tip.


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jessicne
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Thank you both for your help.

When I tried both examples, I couldn't get the time information to stay after using the HINPUT. It would just give me a date and the time information was missing.


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Share your code


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Nevermind my last post - I had the syntax wrong. It worked. Thank you both for your help!


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Change the subject of your first post by adding [SOLVED]


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