Re: Converting from string to integer and back
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- Subject: [mg29058] Re: Converting from string to integer and back
- From: "Seth Chandler" <SChandler at Central.UH.Edu>
- Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 21:53:52 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: University of Houston
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- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
The following code should work for dates between the years 1000 and 9999
meehan[i_Integer]:=
Map[FromDigits[Take[IntegerDigits[i,10],#],10]&,{{1,4},{5,6},{7,8}}]
Seth J. Chandler
"brian" <polar at cloud9.net> wrote in message news:9ekt8b$7u9 at smc.vnet.net...
> Is there an easy way to convert an integer to a string and then back to
> an integer? I have a file containing dates in the YYYYMMDD format. I
> want to convert these dates to {YYYY, MM, DD} so that I can some of the
> functions in the misc`Calendar package. But at this point I am lost as
> to how to split the date into year,month, day. StringTake is the only
> way I could think of but doesn't work as the head of the date is
> integer. If there was a way to convert the date to a string I can split
> the date and then convert this back to an integer but I have seen no
> treatment of anything like this in the books I have. I guess I'm a
> little more used to handling text in perl. Any help while I'm riding up
> the learning curve is greatly appreciated.
>
> Brian Meehan
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