Reworking a code

[datanibbler]

Hi,

I have a piece of code that does roughly the following:

- Target values per day, shift (there are 2) and dpt. are loaded from a file;

- Minute_intervals are created from 05:20 (beginning of a working day) till 22:30 (end of a working day)

- They are joined.

The important point for now is: The code now generates time_intervals which we move towards - so the intervals are always in the future, so to speak. It looks like this:

LOAD

    ...

if(Interval_Min<730,'07:30', if(Interval_Min<1000,'10:00', if(Interval_Min<1200,'12:00', if(Interval_Min<1400,'14:00',
if(Interval_Min<1600,'16:00', if(Interval_Min<1830,'18:30', if(Interval_Min<2030,'20:30', if(Interval_Min<2230,'22:30','22:30')))))))) as Interval_2H,

...

;

The field Interval_Min has every minute of the day between the start- and end-times. These are not real timestamps of course, by now I have those, but that is not the point - this kind of nested IF-constructs is not quite my idea of efficiency. So would there be any other, slimmer way of doing this?

Thanks a lot!

Best regards,

DataNibbler

[marcus_malinow]

IntervalMatch would be a little simpler

[datanibbler]

Hi,

now I have another issue:

A new piece of code that I have introduced in this script now autogenerates "real" minutes (60 to an hour) between 5:20 am and 10:30 pm.

<=> For one field (>interval_hr<) in the code following this, I need to split out the hours:

- One "2hr-interval" during the day is 10am, the next is 12am

=> The minute-intervals I have inbetween there are all from 10:01 to 11:59

=> The hr-intervals should be 11 and 12

How to split out the hour-part now from the minute-intervals (if I could do this, then just adding 1 would be enough)

Here is the code that generates these intervals:

SET vShiftStart=Time#('5:20:00');
Set vShiftEnd=Time#('22:30:00');

Time($(vShiftStart) + Time#('00:01:00')*(IterNo()-1), 'hh:mm') as Interval_Min
AutoGenerate (1)
While Time($(vShiftStart) + Time#('00:01:00')*(IterNo()-1), 'hh:mm') <= $(vShiftEnd);
;

I tried the Hour() function, but then I'd end up with the "hour-intervals" 11, 12 and 13.

Can anyone help me here?

Thanks a lot!

Best regards,

DataNibbler