Simple Date Conversion Issues

[tnewbie]

Hello All,

I have comma delimited flat file as my source, with row structure as 

cust_number	cust_name	cust_age	cust_gender	cust_height	cust_registered_date
001	Rado	25	M	5.4	01-jan-2015
002	John	65	M	4.9	10-nov-2016

my requirement is to convert the cust_registered_date into yyyy/mm/dd format and populate a target flat file....i am having issues with converting this cust_registered_date to any other format....read through as many posts as possible on the community and below is all i did, but with no success

1) Tried this conversion using TalendDate.parsedate, formatdate

2) Tried putting my input column data type to String, Date, similarly tried changing  variable port data type to string, date 

3) Tried using the formats yyyy-MMM-dd, yyyy-mmm-dd,yyyy-mon-dd 

4) Tried putting single quotes, double quotes, without quotes to the incoming values in the src file

My requirement if put in Sql would be a one liner:

to_date(cust_registered_date,'yyyy-mon-dd')

I still don't have a solution for this...can someone please help

[akumar2301]

which version of Talend you are using ?

[akumar2301]

which version Talend you are using ?

[tnewbie]

Hello All,

Never mind...it is working fine now.

I deleted the existing tmap and recreated, this time it is working. I tried with various formats and interestingly it is working.

TalendDate.parseDate("MMM-dd-yyyy",row1.cust_registered)

While working with other ETL tools, I observed this behavior and the same seems to be applicable to Talend as well 🙂