I've got a .CSV file with dozens of columns for dates but they are in DateTime format: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS. Has anyone come across this before and knows if IOM will convert to a date format during the import? If not, does anyone have a regular expression that will do this?
because it is very bad practice to manually go into your data file and make modifications to it. Especially if this is a file format you are exporting from another system and importing into yours and you have to do this daily. Much better to let IOM take care of the switch.
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Patrick Manning
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about 11 years ago
This is perfect - thanks! And editing the Excel document was a pain (even though I still had to open in order to save as .CSV) because there were around 15 columns that needed to be converted.
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Kevin Morton
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about 11 years ago
I made a slight improvement to this in order to be able to amend all dates regardless of year.
(? This replaces anything after a 4 digit number (i.e. yyyy) with a blank. This helped me change a column of birthdays with a date/time format without having to reformat in excel each time.
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Art Bryman
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about 10 years ago
Does anyone have a suggestion for a regex to convert MM/YYYY to MM/1/YYYY?
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Nic Bourne
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about 10 years ago
Art,
Here you go.
Replacement value: $1/1/$2 Value to match on: (^\d+)/(\d{4}$)
Patrick Manning