Re: How to convert sequence of characters to numbers
- Posted by Spock Oct 19, 2012
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I need to convert a date/time string (sequence) of the format "20121018123010" into a sequence of numeric values of the format {2012,10,18,12,30,10} I'm looking for the fastest routine execution time possible. It looks like I could use breakup() and then maybe to_integer() or value() on each of the six elements. Am I missing something or is there a better way. Ultimately I need to poke2 each of the word values into a c_func call
Thanks, casey
Hi Casey,
I imagine that the fastest way would be to poke the string into memory and call a custom machine code routine that did the conversion AND called your C function.
However, if you wanted to use Euphoria then a custom routine would be fastest. You would not have to call breakup() or any other Eu functions as you could address and convert each element directly:
sequence s = "20121018123010" s -= '0' integer year = s[1]*1000 + s[2]*100 + s[3]*10 + s[4] -- year is now 2012
I think you get the idea.
Spock
