need to merge date and time in 5 separate columns in to two and then one
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I have date and time in 5 columns like
YYYY
MM
DD
HH
mm
I wanted to get two colums as date and time
YYYYMMDD and
HHmm
Then a third column like
YYYYMMDDHHmm
Can you please guid im beginner, Thank you verry mutch
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Walter Roberson
on 15 Sep 2022
dt = datetime(YourTable.YYYY, YourTable.MM, YourTable.DD, YourTable.HH, YourTable.mm, 0);
newTable.YYYYMMDD = dt; newTable.YYYYMMDD.Format = 'uuuuMMdd';
newTable.HHmm = dt; newTable.HHmm.Format = 'HH:mm';
newtable.YYYYMMDDHHmm = dt; newtable.YYYYMMDDHHmm.Format = 'uuuuMMddHHmm';
This assumes that you would be okay with the table containing the same data for the three columns as long as what is displayed is in the format you indicated. If the entries have to contain only the data you indicate then the process would be different. Would the entries have to be numeric? Such as 202209121536 ?
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Eric Sofen
on 16 Sep 2022
Depending on what you want to do with the HHmm data, you may want to use the timeofday function on the datetime to get a duration in hours and minutes from midnight of the current day, rather than just changing the format.
newTable.HHmmdur = timeofday(dt)
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