Re: split a number to Date format
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- Subject: [mg124273] Re: split a number to Date format
- From: Michael Stern <nycstern at gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 04:50:26 -0500 (EST)
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Are these coming in as strings, or integers? Are they always the same
length? Is the year always after 2000? I can't provide a general formula
without knowing more about the source data but the following may help. I
assume you start with an integer, so I convert it to a string, then
break that into a list of characters, group them into a list of pairs,
convert each pair back to integers, then add 2000 to the first element
in the list.
In[1]:= testnumber = 111205020000;
In[2]:= Map[ToExpression[StringJoin[#]] &,
Partition[Characters[ToString[testnumber]], 2]] + {2000, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}
You can pass the output from that through DateString[] if you need; I generally prefer to leave dates in list format where possible.
Michael Stern
On Jan 14, 2012, at 2:54 AM, Derek Martin wrote:
> I have experimental data in spreadsheet format. The first column is a time stamp in the format 111205020000.
> If I could parse or split the number 111205020000 into {11,12,05,02,00,00} and replace the first 11 with 2011, the Date commands would work fine. I can do the replacing, but am having difficulty seeing how to split the number into {11,12,05,02,00,00}.
>
> DateString[{2011, 12, 05, 02, 00, 00}] gives
> "Mon 5 Dec 2011 02:00:00"
>
> Any help to convert my number to the right Date format would be appreciated. I am using Mathematica 8.
>
> Thanks in Advance
> Derek
>
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- split a number to Date format