I have tried everything that I can think of to get the right date format. Can anybody help with this RPA-problem in UiPath. I have used the 'get text' activity to get the folder date and after that tried to use the
Datetime.ParseExact(Str variable,"dd/MM/yyyy", System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture).
It gives me the error:
Assign: String was not recognized as a valid DateTime.
Your help is much appreciated.
edit: I have now sought help from a friend who figured it out. The error was in the string, which could not be seen, because there was an invisible character in the string that I extracted through 'get text' activity. The solution is in 2 steps:
assign another variable to the exact same date and use an if statement to find out if these two strings are equal and you will find out that they are not.
Now use a regex to capture only digits and slash/hyphen which will get rid of the invisible character.
Try to use "dd_MM_yyyy" instead of "dd/MM/yyyy".
The reason is because UiPath/VB.Net has a habit of using US date formatting even though you're using Culture Info...It's a real pain
Try this:
pDateString = "21/02/2020"
Assign a Date type variable = Date.ParseExact(pDateString,"dd/MM/yyyy",nothing)
Here we're telling the parser to use English format date...The Date type returned will be in US format but you can simply convert back to uk IF needed by using something like:
pDateString("dd/MM/yyyy")
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I'm trying to format a date for an API. the desired format is: yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.fffffff+HH:mm
(eg. 2022-10-12T09:52:14.1234567+03:00). I'm using Date.ParseExact in the following way:
Date.ParseExact("2022-10-12T09:52:14.1234567+03:00", "yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.fffffff+HH:mm", CultureInfo.InvariantCulture)
.
Initially I used 'Now' instead of this string, but then I saw that the string and the desired format have to match. The error I'm getting is 'DateTime pattern 'H' appears more than once with different values.'. Is there a way to avoid that? Also is it possible to use 'Now' in this line?
Thank you
I suspect that you don't have a parse issue, you don't need ParseExact at all. You have a Date and want to return it as a formatted string. Then use ToString and zzz for the utc-offset:
string result = DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.fffffffzzz");
Read also: Custom date and time format strings
Do any of you awesome DBA fellows know how to remove both the Date and Time stamp from an SQL string?
For example, I have a string that has this:
"2014-04-17 15:38:53.2389 Unexpected Failure System.ServiceModel.FaultException: Unexpected Failure"
I want to remove the "2014-04-17 15:38:53.2389" and just be left with this:
"Unexpected Failure System.ServiceModel.FaultException: Unexpected Failure"
I can get it to work using SUBSTRING
SUBSTRING(CAST([stacktrace] AS NVARCHAR(500)),25 ,LEN(CAST([stacktrace] AS NVARCHAR(500)))) as stackTrace
But this isn't very elegant and could cause problems for string that don't have dates at the start.
I can find ways to remove the TimeStamp or to remove the Date, but I can't find a way to remove both.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks
I don't know the exact code, but: It should be possible to filter the string according to the first alphabetic letter in the string.
at least provide a generic format of your error like you are going to get date and timestamp or just time stamp or some text your error always start with
You can use as following:
check if it is date at start and design the substring accordingly under if-else
select isdate(convert(varchar(10),'2014-04-17 15:38:53.100',111))
possibly you can use as
if (select isdate(convert(varchar(10),<use substring to get first 25 values>,111)))=1
then <design substring to remove and use data>
else
<use as-is>
I am trying to take the following value and making it into a date format of dd-MMM-yy
For example: 110412 turns into 04-NOV-12
My formula as of right now is:
(CONCATENATE(MID(E14,3,2),"-",(TEXT(LEFT(E14,2),"MMM")),"-",RIGHT(E14,2)))
It is giving me 04-Jan-12.
Please note that I would like the month to be in all caps.
Try using the "UPPER(foo)" function as a wrapper to make the result all caps.
UPPER((CONCATENATE(MID(E14,3,2),"-",(TEXT(LEFT(E14,2),"MMM")),"-",RIGHT(E14,2))))
or better still:
=MID(E14,3,2)&"-"&UPPER(TEXT(DATE(MID(E14,5,2),MID(E14,1,2),MID(E14,3,2)),"MMM"))&"-"&RIGHT(E14,2)
I am writing sample code for Date conversion using VB.net.
Problem i am facing that it is prefixing and suffixing with hash(#) symbol.
ex : #2010-12-12#.
How to remove # symbol so that i can only date.
Given your comment, it sounds like this is actually probably just an issue of displaying a DateTime in the debugger. It showing you the DateTime literal form that you could use in VB. This is a bit like C# developers who are concerned about their strings having double backslashes in, when actually that's just the debugger showing escaping.
The DateTime itself doesn't really contain the hashes, and none of the normal format strings will produce hashes either. If you want to see it without the hashes, add a watch for
arrTxLifeReq(0).TransExeDate.ToString()
Does the code which is part of your real program have any problems? If so, please post details of those problems rather than just what the debugger is showing.
Just replace # with ''
for example
string dt = "#2010-12-12#";
dt = dt.Replace ("#","");
I got a date of the type SYDATUM and wondering how to format it in a format like m/d/y.
I've found some snippets on the web, but they were not really helpful.
-thanks yor your help.
You should be more specific - what exactly do you want to do with the date (use type D internally, it's shorter and does the same thing).
Do you want to WRITE it to a list screen? Use the formatting options described in the documentation and online help:
WRITE l_my_date MM/DD/YYYY.
Do you want to convert it to a text variable? Very similar:
WRITE l_my_date TO l_my_text MM/DD/YYYY.
To set the date format in a SAPscript form, see the SET DATE MASK command.
To print the formatted date in a SmartForm, use the WRITE command and a temporary variable (yes, ugly, I know...)
Most controls (ALV Grid for example) should take care of the format automatically.
However - be careful when hard-coding the format into your application. Usually you don't have to do this because the system automatically uses the format specified in the user master data. This ensures that every user will see the date formatted according to their locale settings.
Normally it's better to export the date into the plant level country specific date format:
if w_country is initial.
select single LAND1
from T001W
into w_country
where WERKS eq w_the_plant.
endif.
SET COUNTRY w_country.
write w_the_date to w_export.
for example 03/04/2002 could be different date in different country.
You can try the keyword TRANSLATE. Alternatively suggest you could have a look at this link