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PatrykSAS
Obsidian | Level 7

Hello,

I've a text variable that looks like this:

period
2019-01-01T15:00:00.0/2019-01-01T16:00:00.0
2019-01-01T16:00:00.0/2019-01-01T17:00:00.0

but I'd like to exclude first part of this text to the 2 new vars (date in yymmdd10. format and hour as intg) like bellow:

period date hour
2019-01-01T15:00:00.0/2019-01-01T16:00:00.0 2019-01-01 15
2019-01-01T16:00:00.0/2019-01-01T17:00:00.0 2019-01-01 16

How can I achieve this one?

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PatrykSAS
Obsidian | Level 7

Ok, I've done simple substr and it works

input(substr(t1.__Observation_period,1,10),yymmdd10.)

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PatrykSAS
Obsidian | Level 7

Ok, I've done simple substr and it works

input(substr(t1.__Observation_period,1,10),yymmdd10.)

ballardw
Super User

The E8601DTw.d informat will read those values into a single datetime variable as well if of interest.

 

You might also test what happens without the Substr and just use

input(t1.__Observation_period,yymmdd10.)

 

The length on an informat controls how many characters are read. This is "nice" data where the first 10 characters are in a common layout, no 1 digit month or day of month values.

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