Splitting strings

Question

I have a string that is a time and a period that I want to parse; however, I want to parse this if the period is AM or PM. So the string for example with be: 8:40AM and I want to split that up into it's parts. What I want to do is split on the first letter so that it doesn't matter if it's am or pm so&nbsp; something like:
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var timePeriod = 8:40AM
var timePeriodParsed=&nbsp;timePeriod&nbsp;.split(Is letter)
var period =&nbsp;timePeriodParsed[1]
var hourMinutes =&nbsp;timePeriodParsed[0]
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print(period)
output: AM
print(hoursMinutes)
output: 8:40
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4m4d3u5 · Accepted Answer

I am pretty sure I have to format it then I can do what I want. I have to do&nbsp;aqConvert.DateTimeToFormatStr(timePeriod, "%c"), then I can get the string 8:40 AM, then I can split by space, then split by :

marsha_r · Answer

The methods you want are here:
https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/reference/program-objects/aqstring/methods.html
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Look for the colon ":" and everything&nbsp;before that position is your hours
The next two positions after the colon are your minutes
The next two positions after the minutes are AM or PM or whatever

marsha_r · Answer

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You said in your first post that you have a string.&nbsp; If you don't actually have a string, then yes, you need to reformat it.&nbsp;&nbsp;
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After that, you don't need to split anything.&nbsp;&nbsp;
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Use Find to locate the :&nbsp; and it will give you the position of : in the string&nbsp;
https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/reference/program-objects/aqstring/find.html
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From there, the two characters before that are the hours and the two characters after that are the minutes.&nbsp; Now you have the whole time&nbsp; ColonPosition-2 through ColonPosition+2
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From your examples, it's not clear if you have a space before AM/PM or not.&nbsp;&nbsp;
If you do have a space, then AM/PM is at ColonPosition +4
If you do not have a space, then AM/PM is at ColonPosition +3

4m4d3u5 · Answer

Yeah I guess that works too. I do have a string but Ican reformate it with the&nbsp;DateTimeToFormatStr so that I can a delimiter to use to parse the string which was the problem I had no delimiter.&nbsp;&nbsp; I think it's clear but thanks.&nbsp;

tristaanogre · Answer

DateTimeToFormatStr is not for taking a string and formatting.&nbsp; It is for taking a DateTime data type (a specific data type) and formatting it into a string.
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If you have a string that you want to reformat in a particular way, then you'll need to do some manipulation of the string using the aqString object to split it up into different bits.

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