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  • R realJSOP

    I created a datetime variable like so

    LET vTEST = '2018-09-05 13:27:14.5';

    Then, I tried various methods to strip the time component from the date. Here are the various techniques for doing this, along with their generated results:

    DATE(MAKEDATE(YEAR($(vTEST)), MONTH($(vTEST)), DAY($(vTEST))), 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.FFF') = "2018-09-05 00:27:00.000"
    DATE(FLOOR($vTEST)), 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.FFF') = "2018-09-05 00:27:00.000"
    DATE(NUM(DATE(FLOOR($(vTEST)) 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.FFF') = "2018-09-05" <======== THIS is what I wanted

    A Qlikview datetime is represented by a floating point number with the date on the integer side of the decimal point, and the time on the fractional side. I honestly thought the FLOOR function would do what I want, but it left the minutes untouched, which resulted in the variable still having a time component. The only way I could get the time completely stripped is illustrated in the last example. Have I mentioned how much I hate working in Qlikview?

    ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
    -----
    You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
    -----
    When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

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    Perl scripts? Is regex possible with this Qlikview crap?

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    • R realJSOP

      I created a datetime variable like so

      LET vTEST = '2018-09-05 13:27:14.5';

      Then, I tried various methods to strip the time component from the date. Here are the various techniques for doing this, along with their generated results:

      DATE(MAKEDATE(YEAR($(vTEST)), MONTH($(vTEST)), DAY($(vTEST))), 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.FFF') = "2018-09-05 00:27:00.000"
      DATE(FLOOR($vTEST)), 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.FFF') = "2018-09-05 00:27:00.000"
      DATE(NUM(DATE(FLOOR($(vTEST)) 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.FFF') = "2018-09-05" <======== THIS is what I wanted

      A Qlikview datetime is represented by a floating point number with the date on the integer side of the decimal point, and the time on the fractional side. I honestly thought the FLOOR function would do what I want, but it left the minutes untouched, which resulted in the variable still having a time component. The only way I could get the time completely stripped is illustrated in the last example. Have I mentioned how much I hate working in Qlikview?

      ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
      -----
      You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
      -----
      When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

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      Richard Deeming
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      John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

      YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.FFF

      Seriously? The format strings don't differentiate between "month" and "minute"? :wtf: 💩


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      • Richard DeemingR Richard Deeming

        John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

        YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.FFF

        Seriously? The format strings don't differentiate between "month" and "minute"? :wtf: 💩


        "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

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        Perhaps it's context sensitive.

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          Perhaps it's context sensitive.

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          Jorgen Andersson
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          • R realJSOP

            I created a datetime variable like so

            LET vTEST = '2018-09-05 13:27:14.5';

            Then, I tried various methods to strip the time component from the date. Here are the various techniques for doing this, along with their generated results:

            DATE(MAKEDATE(YEAR($(vTEST)), MONTH($(vTEST)), DAY($(vTEST))), 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.FFF') = "2018-09-05 00:27:00.000"
            DATE(FLOOR($vTEST)), 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.FFF') = "2018-09-05 00:27:00.000"
            DATE(NUM(DATE(FLOOR($(vTEST)) 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.FFF') = "2018-09-05" <======== THIS is what I wanted

            A Qlikview datetime is represented by a floating point number with the date on the integer side of the decimal point, and the time on the fractional side. I honestly thought the FLOOR function would do what I want, but it left the minutes untouched, which resulted in the variable still having a time component. The only way I could get the time completely stripped is illustrated in the last example. Have I mentioned how much I hate working in Qlikview?

            ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
            -----
            You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
            -----
            When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

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            John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

            DATE(NUM(DATE(FLOOR($(vTEST)) 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.FFF')

            In my geeky teens I would have thought, "oh wow, this is so cool, 4 levels of parens!" and shown it to all my friends (erm, wait, what friends???) who would have gone "wow, that IS cool!" (if I had any friends.) Now in my geeky 50's I'm with you -- I look at that and think, wow, what BS is this?

            Latest Article - A Concise Overview of Threads Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802

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            • M Marc Clifton

              John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

              DATE(NUM(DATE(FLOOR($(vTEST)) 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.FFF')

              In my geeky teens I would have thought, "oh wow, this is so cool, 4 levels of parens!" and shown it to all my friends (erm, wait, what friends???) who would have gone "wow, that IS cool!" (if I had any friends.) Now in my geeky 50's I'm with you -- I look at that and think, wow, what BS is this?

              Latest Article - A Concise Overview of Threads Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802

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              Marc Clifton wrote:

              "oh wow, this is so cool, 4 levels of parens!"

              And your geeky friends would have mocked you because there are 5 levels... :laugh:

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              • R realJSOP

                I created a datetime variable like so

                LET vTEST = '2018-09-05 13:27:14.5';

                Then, I tried various methods to strip the time component from the date. Here are the various techniques for doing this, along with their generated results:

                DATE(MAKEDATE(YEAR($(vTEST)), MONTH($(vTEST)), DAY($(vTEST))), 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.FFF') = "2018-09-05 00:27:00.000"
                DATE(FLOOR($vTEST)), 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.FFF') = "2018-09-05 00:27:00.000"
                DATE(NUM(DATE(FLOOR($(vTEST)) 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.FFF') = "2018-09-05" <======== THIS is what I wanted

                A Qlikview datetime is represented by a floating point number with the date on the integer side of the decimal point, and the time on the fractional side. I honestly thought the FLOOR function would do what I want, but it left the minutes untouched, which resulted in the variable still having a time component. The only way I could get the time completely stripped is illustrated in the last example. Have I mentioned how much I hate working in Qlikview?

                ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
                -----
                You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
                -----
                When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

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                Stefan Kusters
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                I wonder that any of these expressions returns something, since none of them has balanced parentheses. On the other hand, I have never heard of "Qlikview" (fortunately), and perhaps this "language" can't cope with balanced parentheses :laugh:

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                • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                  Marc Clifton wrote:

                  "oh wow, this is so cool, 4 levels of parens!"

                  And your geeky friends would have mocked you because there are 5 levels... :laugh:

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                  kmoorevs
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                  If he were counting parens, 4 would be the average between the left and right side. :confused: edit: sorry, didn't see the post below which mentions this. :-O

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                  • M Marc Clifton

                    John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

                    DATE(NUM(DATE(FLOOR($(vTEST)) 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.FFF')

                    In my geeky teens I would have thought, "oh wow, this is so cool, 4 levels of parens!" and shown it to all my friends (erm, wait, what friends???) who would have gone "wow, that IS cool!" (if I had any friends.) Now in my geeky 50's I'm with you -- I look at that and think, wow, what BS is this?

                    Latest Article - A Concise Overview of Threads Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802

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                    qlik example

                    DATE(NUM(DATE(FLOOR($(vTEST)) 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.FFF')

                    This is the necessary stage of declarative programming* that occurs right before AI takes over and writes all the code for us. :rolleyes: Yes, it's like SQL and yes I hate SQL also*. :laugh: <bumpersticker>Real Devs Hate SQL</bumpersticker>

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                    • R realJSOP

                      I created a datetime variable like so

                      LET vTEST = '2018-09-05 13:27:14.5';

                      Then, I tried various methods to strip the time component from the date. Here are the various techniques for doing this, along with their generated results:

                      DATE(MAKEDATE(YEAR($(vTEST)), MONTH($(vTEST)), DAY($(vTEST))), 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.FFF') = "2018-09-05 00:27:00.000"
                      DATE(FLOOR($vTEST)), 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.FFF') = "2018-09-05 00:27:00.000"
                      DATE(NUM(DATE(FLOOR($(vTEST)) 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.FFF') = "2018-09-05" <======== THIS is what I wanted

                      A Qlikview datetime is represented by a floating point number with the date on the integer side of the decimal point, and the time on the fractional side. I honestly thought the FLOOR function would do what I want, but it left the minutes untouched, which resulted in the variable still having a time component. The only way I could get the time completely stripped is illustrated in the last example. Have I mentioned how much I hate working in Qlikview?

                      ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
                      -----
                      You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
                      -----
                      When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

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                      Worried Brown Eyes
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                      How about

                      dayname(vTEST)

                      Assuming / is OK instead of -

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                      • R realJSOP

                        I created a datetime variable like so

                        LET vTEST = '2018-09-05 13:27:14.5';

                        Then, I tried various methods to strip the time component from the date. Here are the various techniques for doing this, along with their generated results:

                        DATE(MAKEDATE(YEAR($(vTEST)), MONTH($(vTEST)), DAY($(vTEST))), 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.FFF') = "2018-09-05 00:27:00.000"
                        DATE(FLOOR($vTEST)), 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.FFF') = "2018-09-05 00:27:00.000"
                        DATE(NUM(DATE(FLOOR($(vTEST)) 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.FFF') = "2018-09-05" <======== THIS is what I wanted

                        A Qlikview datetime is represented by a floating point number with the date on the integer side of the decimal point, and the time on the fractional side. I honestly thought the FLOOR function would do what I want, but it left the minutes untouched, which resulted in the variable still having a time component. The only way I could get the time completely stripped is illustrated in the last example. Have I mentioned how much I hate working in Qlikview?

                        ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
                        -----
                        You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
                        -----
                        When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

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                        Worried Brown Eyes
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                        Does this work for you?

                        SET DateFormat='YYYY-MM-DD';

                        LET vTEST = '2018-09-05 13:27:14.5';

                        dayname(vTEST)

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                        • M Marc Clifton

                          John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

                          DATE(NUM(DATE(FLOOR($(vTEST)) 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.FFF')

                          In my geeky teens I would have thought, "oh wow, this is so cool, 4 levels of parens!" and shown it to all my friends (erm, wait, what friends???) who would have gone "wow, that IS cool!" (if I had any friends.) Now in my geeky 50's I'm with you -- I look at that and think, wow, what BS is this?

                          Latest Article - A Concise Overview of Threads Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802

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                          Sander Rossel
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                          I'm somewhere between my teens and 50's and two parens would've been fine for me ;p

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                          • Richard DeemingR Richard Deeming

                            John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

                            YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.FFF

                            Seriously? The format strings don't differentiate between "month" and "minute"? :wtf: 💩


                            "These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer

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                            Vincent Maverick Durano
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                            Perhaps the feature "common sense" was integrated. If it sees HH, then the next format will treat minutes regardless of the casing ;P

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                            • R realJSOP

                              I created a datetime variable like so

                              LET vTEST = '2018-09-05 13:27:14.5';

                              Then, I tried various methods to strip the time component from the date. Here are the various techniques for doing this, along with their generated results:

                              DATE(MAKEDATE(YEAR($(vTEST)), MONTH($(vTEST)), DAY($(vTEST))), 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.FFF') = "2018-09-05 00:27:00.000"
                              DATE(FLOOR($vTEST)), 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.FFF') = "2018-09-05 00:27:00.000"
                              DATE(NUM(DATE(FLOOR($(vTEST)) 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.FFF') = "2018-09-05" <======== THIS is what I wanted

                              A Qlikview datetime is represented by a floating point number with the date on the integer side of the decimal point, and the time on the fractional side. I honestly thought the FLOOR function would do what I want, but it left the minutes untouched, which resulted in the variable still having a time component. The only way I could get the time completely stripped is illustrated in the last example. Have I mentioned how much I hate working in Qlikview?

                              ".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
                              -----
                              You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
                              -----
                              When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013

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                              Mark Miller
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                              This will give you the date portion of the string:

                              LET vTEST = '2018-09-05 13:27:14.5';
                              LET vResult = Date(vTEST, 'YYYY-MM-DD'); <-- vResult = 2018-09-05

                              Also, 'MM' for months, 'mm' for minutes.

                              Sincerely, -Mark

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