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Christian Bryan

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Is there an elegant method of converting time as represented by a string back to an integer value.

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Christian

I wish all development was done in Smalltalk,
Progress sucks most of the time.
 
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Verdana">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Christian Bryan:
Is there an elegant method of converting time as represented by a string back to an integer value.
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Presuming the string is in HH:MM:SS format, it'd be
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial, Verdana">code:</font><HR><pre><FONT face="Courier New">
t = integer(substr(s,1,2)) * 3600 +
integer(substr(s,4,2)) * 60 +
integer(substr(s,7) no-error.
</FONT f>[/code]
 
Christian-

The example above given by madpaulo is the easiest way to do this now. However, Progress is considering a date/time datatype along with improved functions for handling dates and times.

I would recommend going to the Progress Enhancement Request Systems and search for the following: #1072 Date/Time Stamp, #1126 Add new Datatypes and #1143 Date/Time Functions. They all have a large number of votes, and I am sure any added votes and comments would be appreciated.

Remember, this is the official way to let Progress know what you would like enhanced
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Hope this helps,
-Chris

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Chris Schreiber
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chris@fast4gl.com
 
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