Re: String to Number
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- Subject: [mg27187] Re: String to Number
- From: vze295bp at verizon.net (David Reiss)
- Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 03:10:33 -0500 (EST)
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In article <95tq99$m8c at smc.vnet.net>, steffenz at server2.fo.FH-Koeln.DE wrote:
> Hi
>
> I read a time from a file (this format 06:42) as a string.
>
> I would like to convert this string into to numbers (6 and 42).
>
> any suggestions?
>
> Thanks
>
> Steffen
>
>
> Dipl.-Ing. Steffen Zozgornik
>
> Institut fur Licht- und Bautechnik
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>
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Here is an example (the result is a list of the integers
that you are looking for:
In[1]:=
TimeStringToIntegers[time_String]:=
ToExpression[StringReplace["{"<>time<>"}",":"\[Rule]","]]
In[2]:=
TimeStringToIntegers["06:42"]
Out[2]=
{6,42}
--David
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