Text to date conversion

RE: Text to date conversion

Mike Schmitt — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 14:55:46 GMT

My main suggestion for learning stuff like this is to experiment with Appian expression functions and try new things for yourself.

RE: Text to date conversion

vijaykumars5676 — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 05:53:09 GMT

Thank you so much!!!
Where do I learn this?

RE: Text to date conversion

Harshitha Mangamuri — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 05:43:32 GMT

Hi Vijay Kumar, Please look at this code. Hope it will be helpful if the input is in the mentioned format as above.

a!localVariables(
  local!months: {
    "Jan",
    "Feb",
    "Mar",
    "APR",
    "May",
    "Jun",
    "Jul",
    "Aug",
    "Sep",
    "Oct",
    "Nov",
    "Dec"
  },
  local!splitString: ldrop(
    a!forEach(
      items: split(ri!input, " "),
      expression: substitute(fv!item, ",", "")
    ),
    1
  ),
  date(
    tointeger(local!splitString[3]),
    wherecontains(local!splitString[2], local!months),
    tointeger(local!splitString[1])
  )
)

RE: Text to date conversion

Mike Schmitt — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 18:41:42 GMT

Off the top of my head I'd guess you will need to build your own Expression Rule to parse the specified text date format you need to consume into a standard Appian Date type object. If you do some searching in past posts here, i'm guessing you'll find examples that others have built.