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Aayushi_17
Quartz | Level 8

 

How to remove extra :00 in time

for eg:
input:
'2019-03-30T20:39:00'
'2019-01-30T19:15:00'
'2019-01-30'

desried output:
'2019-03-30T20:39'
'2019-01-30T19:15'
'2019-01-30'

 

Thanks in advance

3 REPLIES 3
Kurt_Bremser
Super User

A datetime value will always have a time component; if you want to keep a missing time component as such, you have to store date and time in separate variables.

What format is your data source? Remote database, text file, Excel?

Ksharp
Super User

Is it a STRING ?

 

data have;
input x $40.;
want=prxchange("s/:00'$/'/",1,strip(x));
datalines4;
'2019-03-30T20:39:00'
'2019-01-30T19:15:00'
'2019-01-30'
;;;;

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