Taking the seconds off a timestamp

[Steven Lindsey]

In my OBR_7 I have a timestamp that I need to take off the seconds from.  I tried to right a tcl proc but I’m a newbie and can’t figure it out it keeps taking the first two numbers instead of the last two.  If there is away to do it in a Xlate that would work for me.

Here is copy of my tcl

lassign $xlateInVals Time

set Time [string trimright [string range $Time 2 end] ]

set xlateOutVals

Thanks

Topic

[Mason Miller]

an easy way to do this is to modify your outbound variant to only allow 12 characters.

[Max Drown (Infor)]

Try it like this.

Code:

set date [string range “19720621090100” 0 11]

-- Max Drown (Infor)

[Robert Kersemakers]

Max is right: in your string range command, you are taking the string starting from index 2 (this is the third character) till the end. So it surely removes the first 2 characters.

Max’s example will work like a charm for your problem. If in another case you always want to remove the last two characters. you could use

Code:

set output [string range $input 0 end-2]

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