Date conversion [Resolved]

October 01, 2010, 01:28 PM

Ted Michalski

I have gotten a timestamp to convert to the following format:

1 Sep, 10

Now, I want to convert this to:

1-Sep-10

How can I do this? I couldn't find the answer in "The Book".

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Ted Michalski,

October 01, 2010, 05:29 PM

jfr99

Hi Ted,

Here's an example using the CAR file. Run this and see if this would work.

-*
DEFINE FILE CAR
CNT/I3 WITH COUNTRY = CNT + 1;
C_DT/A14 = DECODE CNT (
1 '20100322053005'
2 '20000326213005'
3 '20100330023005'
4 '20090402103005'
5 '20100407233005'
ELSE '???');
END
-*
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
CNT
C_DT
COUNTRY
WHERE RECORDLIMIT EQ 5
ON TABLE HOLD
END
-*
DEFINE FILE HOLD
C_DTS/HYYMDS = HINPUT(14, C_DT, 8, 'HYYMDS');
C_DTS_A/A9 = HCNVRT(C_DTS, '(HDMtY)', 9, 'A9');
C_DTS_B/A9 = CTRAN(9,C_DTS_A, 32, 45, 'A9');
C_DTS_C/A9 = IF EDIT(C_DTS_A,'9') EQ '0' THEN EDIT(CTRAN(9,C_DTS_A, 32, 45, 'A9'),'$99999999') ELSE CTRAN(9,C_DTS_A, 32, 45, 'A9');
END
-*
TABLE FILE HOLD
PRINT
CNT
C_DT
C_DTS
C_DTS_A
C_DTS_B
C_DTS_C
END

The field C_DTS_B keeps the leading zero on the day where C_DTS_C does not.

Jim

October 01, 2010, 10:05 PM

Arif

What did you use to convert your date time to date formate? HDATE is not an option because I cant manipulate the date with it.

October 04, 2010, 06:34 AM

Ted Michalski

I used the following formula to convert the timestamp to this format:

1 Sep, 2010

VAL_DT_DISP/DMtY = HDATE(VAL_DT, 'DMtY');

October 04, 2010, 04:43 PM

<JG>

quote:
/DMtY

Arif look at what was posted by jfr99

quote:
/HYYMDS

To use date functions, you must first convert to a valid internal date format.

October 04, 2010, 10:58 PM

Dan Satchell

I think the only way you can get the format you want is to use EDIT with HCNVRT, as jfr99 suggested earlier. You can use a straight EDIT with a mask instead of the CTRAN function, but the result is the same.

C_DTS_C/A9 = IF EDIT(C_DTS_A,'9') EQ '0' THEN EDIT(C_DTS_A,'$9-999$-99') ELSE EDIT(C_DTS_A,'99-999$-99');

October 05, 2010, 06:52 AM

Ted Michalski

Thanks jfr99, but it looks like your inputs are in a different format than mine. Here's what I have:

2010-09-01 00:00:00

What I want is:

1-Sep-10

October 05, 2010, 02:11 PM

Tom Flynn

Then modify what jfr99 showed you to your data and adjust the code accordingly:

  
APP APPENDPATH IBISAMP
-RUN
DEFINE FILE CAR
CNT/I3 WITH COUNTRY = CNT + 1;
C_DT/A20 = DECODE CNT (
1 '20100322 05:30:05'
2 '20000326 21:30:05'
3 '20100330 02:30:05'
4 '20090402 10:30:05'
5 '20100407 23:30:05'
ELSE '???');
END
-*
TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
CNT
C_DT
COUNTRY
WHERE RECORDLIMIT EQ 5
ON TABLE HOLD
END
-*
DEFINE FILE HOLD
C_DTS/HYYMDS = HINPUT(20, C_DT, 8, 'HYYMDS');
C_DTS_A/A9 = HCNVRT(C_DTS, '(HDMtY)', 9, 'A9');
C_DTS_B/A9 = CTRAN(9,C_DTS_A, 32, 45, 'A9');
C_DTS_C/A9 = IF EDIT(C_DTS_A,'9') EQ '0' THEN EDIT(CTRAN(9,C_DTS_A, 32, 45, 'A9'),'$99999999') ELSE 
                                                   CTRAN(9,C_DTS_A, 32, 45, 'A9');
END
-*
TABLE FILE HOLD
PRINT
CNT
C_DT
C_DTS
C_DTS_A
C_DTS_B
C_DTS_C
END
-EXIT

October 05, 2010, 03:20 PM

Francis Mariani

-* File date56.fex

DT3 provides the date in the format you require, one digit day for dates before 10. 

DEFINE FILE CAR
DT1/HYYMDS = HINPUT(20, '2010-09-01 00:00:00', 8, 'HYYMDS');
END

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
DT1
COMPUTE DT2/DMY = HDATE(DT1, 'DMY');
COMPUTE DT3/A12 = DATETRAN(DT2,'(DMY)','(-dt)','EN',12,'A12');
BY COUNTRY
END

Francis

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October 06, 2010, 07:37 AM

Ted Michalski

Francis, thanks, this 'kind of' works. It does give me the desired format, but:

You have a hardcoded timestamp '2010-09-01 00:00:00' as an argument for the HINPUT function. When I put in my report variable(FLD_DT) in the formula:

DT1/HYYMDS = HINPUT(20, FLD_DATE, 8, 'HYYMDS');

It tells me that I have an erroneous argument.
When I put single quotes around my variable, it then gives me 31-Dec-00.

The timestamps I have in the database are:

2010-09-01 00:00:00
2010-09-02 00:00:00
.
.
.
.
2010-09-30 00:00:00

It looks like the formula is not picking up my variable.

October 06, 2010, 10:05 AM

Francis Mariani

The HINPUT in the DEFINE is to create a database date-time field, since none of the sample databases have one. You wouldn't need to do that step as you already have database date-time fields (not "variables").

You should only have to do the two COMPUTE statements - one to retrieve the Date portion of a Date-Time field, and the second to transform the Date field to an alpha string in the output format you desire.

Francis

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