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Hello,

I am looking for some help on how to convert the time portion of a DateTime field to alphanumeric format of HHMMSS. I am currently using the HCNVRT function to extract the time from the DateTime field. This returns the time in HH:MM:SS format

e.g. HCNVRT( RecordDateTime , '(HHIS)' , 8 , 'A8' )
returns 17:23:32

However, I would like to strip out the colon characters, and return HHMMSS instead.
e.g. 172332

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

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Posts: 9 | Registered: August 30, 2011Report This Post
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Welcome to the forum....



Why not just EDIT the result.

e.g.
EDIT(HCNVRT( RecordDateTime , '(HHIS)' , 8 , 'A8' ),'99$99$99')


Waz...

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Function HPART or function HNAME may also work.


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Thanks Waz! That worked perfectly! I kept thinking in terms of date functions, it never occurred to me to use EDIT.

Thanks again!
 
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