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    Import custom formatted time field from Excel

    I have an excel file and have imported it inot Alpha 5 V 7 table. The problem is the spreadsheet contains some fields that have a custom excel format and I can't get that data to import correctly. Here is the skinny on the data....

    In excel I have a field called "logged in Time per week". The data entered is represented in HHH:MM:SS. If I enter 107:19:24 into the cell all is well. Note in excel if you look at the formula line it shows as a date of 1/14/1900 11:19:24 AM

    If I try to format the cell as text it changes the data in the cell to a value of4.47180555555556.

    When the data is imported into Alpha it imports as 01/04/1900 11:19:24 00 am which alpha sees as a date format. If I change the format to character the data disappears.

    I cannot figure out how to either get this changed in excel so it will export as a character field for A% or how I can get it reformatted in A5 so the data displays as hhh:mm:ss. Anyone out there solved this already. Thanks in advance.

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    Re: Import custom formatted time field from Excel

    I think I may have figured it out.....rather than imorting it as from an excel spreadsheet, I saved the spreadsheet as a text file and imported it as a text file...that seems to have done the trick...now I need to change the field types for some and see what challenges that brings....at least the hhh:mm:ss are character fields and as such I can change them to seconds and / or time for the calculations I need.

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      Re: Import custom formatted time field from Excel

      Sounds like a plan.

      Please post your findings...
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        Re: Import custom formatted time field from Excel

        OK....importing the data as a text file worked fine for the original issue for my time fields. I introduced another issue that I am having a little trouble with and could use some help.....when I imported as a txt file the date field in excel was formatted as Jan-05, Feb-05, Mar-05 etc. This of course now exist as characters in the date field in A5. Since I will be appending this data to an existing table where the date field is an 8 character Date structure.

        Because of this I really need to covert the Jan-05 character to a date field before I append the data (at least I think I do). I can't seem to accomplish this....any ideas on this. Thanks in advance.

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          Re: Import custom formatted time field from Excel

          Originally posted by borumrm
          OK....importing the data as a text file worked fine for the original issue for my time fields. I introduced another issue that I am having a little trouble with and could use some help.....when I imported as a txt file the date field in excel was formatted as Jan-05, Feb-05, Mar-05 etc. This of course now exist as characters in the date field in A5. Since I will be appending this data to an existing table where the date field is an 8 character Date structure.

          Because of this I really need to covert the Jan-05 character to a date field before I append the data (at least I think I do). I can't seem to accomplish this....any ideas on this. Thanks in advance.
          What does "Jan-05" signify? 1-5-2006?

          Code:
          dt = "Jan-05"
          ? ctod(dt+"-2006")
          = {01/05/2006}
          There can be only one.

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            Re: Import custom formatted time field from Excel

            What does "Jan-05" signify? 1-5-2006?

            It actually signifies mmyy. In the master table to which this data will be appened the Date field is stored as mmddyyyy. I just want to be able to convert the character strings of Jan-05, Feb-05 etc within the transaction table to a date structure of mmddyyyy so it will append correctly to the master table when I run the append operation.

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              Re: Import custom formatted time field from Excel

              Originally posted by borumrm
              I just want to be able to convert the character strings of Jan-05, Feb-05 etc within the transaction table to a date structure of mmddyyyy so it will append correctly to the master table when I run the append operation.
              How do you want to pick the dd to put in the field and can we assume that the first yy of yyyy wil be 20?

              Code:
              dt = "Jan-05"
              ? ctod(left(dt,3)+"-01-20"+right(dt,2))
              = {01/01/2005}
              There can be only one.

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                Re: Import custom formatted time field from Excel

                Thanks for the reply Stan....

                You posted the following code

                dt = "Jan-05"
                ? ctod(left(dt,3)+"-01-20"+right(dt,2))
                = {01/01/2005}

                As it turns out this worked great...I did have a little problem at first because it was returning 01/01/1920 instead of 01/01/2005. I figured out the issue was because the data structure is 8 character but only 6 are in the table. JAN-05 is six characters not 8...all I had to do was change your expression ctod(left(dt,3)+"-01-20"+right(dt,4)) to account for the two spaces. I guess I could have trimmed the field first also. Thanks for the help.

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