Is there a Characters replacement in a string function?

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Is there a Characters replacement in a string function?

Postby arjfca » 23 May 2013

Hello

Is there a function to replace characters in a string.
I need to remove ":" and the "." in a time string like 06:30:37.957

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Re: Is there a Characters replacement in a string function?

Postby TJ » 23 May 2013

Hello

Is there a function to replace characters in a string.
I need to remove ":" and the "." in a time string like 06:30:37.957

Martin
Probably there is a function to do the trick; I haven't came across it yet.


To remove the characters, you have to:

1. find out the length of the string,
2. run a loop to cycle through the length of the string,
3. at each cycle, check to see if the successive character of the string is a ":" or ".",
4. if not, then add the character to the "new" string,
5. if so, then skip the character and go on to the next one.
6. at the end of the loop, you will have the new string without the ":" or "." .

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Re: Is there a Characters replacement in a string function?

Postby SP » 23 May 2013

Martin,
FormatTime("HHmmss",datetime) or
FormatTime("HHmmss",el_timetodatetime_s (time_s)) returns 063037 as string.

FormatTime("hhmmssms", datetime)) returns 063037957 with Milliseconds.


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