Here's one approach:

DXP=: (8#1) j. (i.8)e.3 5
daten28601=: DXP #!.'-'"1 ":@,.

   6!:2 'daten28601 (5e6 1 $ 20180102)'
0.659381

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Raul

On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 5:56 PM, Joe Bogner <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm curious if there is a speedier way to convert a date stored as a
> number like 20180101 or 20170228 to the ISO 8601 equivalent:
>
> This does OK
>
>    datenumToISO =: 3 : 0
> (4&{. , '-' , 2&{.@(4&}.) , '-' , _2&{.)"1 ": y
> )
>
> datenumToISO 20180101
> 2018-01-01
>    datenumToISO 20180228
> 2018-02-28
>
>
> But is slower than I'd like ... no big deal but just curious
>
> 6!:2 'datenumToISO (5e6 1 $ 20180102)'
> 4.29083
>
> sprintf is slow
>
> dateNumToISO2 =: 3 : 0
> '%d-%02d-%02d' sprintf ,:(0 100 100 #: y)
> )
>
>    (6!:2) 'dateNumToISO2 (1e5 # 20180102)'
> 2.34002
>    (6!:2) 'dateNumToISO2 (1e6 # 20180102)'
> 25.4977
>
>
> 8!:2 shows promise but I can't figure out the formatting string to add
> a leading zero if it's possible
>
> (6!:2) '8!:2 (0 100 100 #: (5e6 # 20180102))'
> 1.4853
>
> 'q<->,q<->,d' 8!:2 (0 100 100 #: (1 # 20180102))
> 2018-1-2
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