topic sticky date format in QlikView

sticky date format

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 06:59:15 GMT

Hi, I have an xls with monthly price updates which i want add to my existing reports.

Problem is that this file has a manual month name instead of a real date format :

format is

'Jan 12

'Feb 12

'Mar 12

is there any way to fix this and convert it during load? I'd like to use it with my standard date island.

thanks for any input!

whiteline — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 07:45:08 GMT

Hi.

You can use Date# function to convert strings into date format (dual).

In your case Date#(right(date, len(date)-1), 'MMM DD').

Then you can convert it with Date function:

Date(Date#(right(date, len(date)-1), 'MMM DD'), 'YYYY-MM')

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 07:53:24 GMT

that's great, thanks alot!