Hello everyone, I recently decided to use J more "professionally" and do some real world data analysis in J. For most of the time this works quite well - but in some (sadly simple) cases I need the help of the forum.
I've got some data in a lot of CSV files and I'm able to process most of the data (numerical data, strings), the way I want. What I'm not sure about, is, however, the question how to represent dates in J. Say, I have a column in my CSV which contains strings representing German style dates (dd.mm.yyyy) - which would be a good J representation of a date? As far as I know, there is now native J data type for dates. I need to be able to do some simple comparisons on the date (which one is earlier/later?, did events happen on the same date?) and that is basically it. I therefore would like to know, what representation you would suggest? Should I go with a plain integer representation (the digits representing yyyymmmdd) or are there other and probably more idiomatic ways? Kind regards, Thomas ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
