> ". does not seem to be an option… It is an option if you first convert '/' to ';'. Or better still, I think, if you convert '/' and ';' to ' '.
y=: '1;2242;22/11/2018;39.70;' ]indexes=: I. y e. ';/' 1 6 9 12 17 23 ]z=: ' ' indexes } y 1 2242 22 11 2018 39.70 'a b day month year value'=: ".z a 1 b 2242 day 22 month 11 year 2018 value 39.7 Substitute for intermediates to package it all up into an explicit verb: chomp=: 3 : 0 ". ' ' (I. y e. ';/') } y ) chomp NB. as a 1-liner 3 : '". '' '' (I. y e. '';/'') } y' chomp y 1 2242 22 11 2018 39.7 On Sat, 1 Dec 2018 at 00:15, Rúben Cabaço <[email protected]> wrote: > What is the best way to convert bytes of numbers and dates to appropriate > values? > > The data I am trying to convert is in the following format: > 1;2242;22/11/2018;39.70; > > I have managed to read it, but am stumbling in the conversion part. Using > ". does not seem to be an option since I get a domain error on the date, > which makes sense. > > Perhaps I should be trying to apply ". on those values that are appropriate > and some other primitive on the date. How would I do this? > > Thanks, > Rúben > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
