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Hi,

I need to convert the date which is in the form 20050202 to 2005-02-02.
I tried using the Modify stage in order to acheive this and gave the following derivation in the modify stage:LEAD_START_DATE=StringToDate(LEAD_START_DATE,"%yyyy%mm%dd")

Compilation was successful but the job aborted during run by giving the following message:

LEAD_START_DATE=StringToDate(LEAD_START_DATE,"%yyyy%mm%dd")

Is there anyother way to acheive this functionality in Modify Stage.
Please let me know


Thanks,
Bhavna

Welcome aboard! :D
Please post the entire error/warning message.

The entire error message is posted below:


main_program: Error parsing modify adapter: Error in binding: Unknown conversion: StringToDate; input:
(LEAD_START_DATE=StringToDate(LEAD_START_DATE,"%yyyy%mm%dd")
;



Also I tried using the date_from_string(string) function which converts the string to a date representation.
I gave the below specification:
LEAD_START_DATE=date_from_string(LEAD_START_DATE)

The job compiled and ran successfully but the value of the field is coming out to be NULL.Please let me know if i can use any other function to get the date in CCYY-MM-YY format.

Thanks,
Bhavna

Did you try %yyyy-%mm-%dd?

Hi,


I tried using %yyyy-%mm-%dd option but the job aborted while running.


Thanks,
Bhavna

[quote="BCAPP"]
Also I tried using the date_from_string(string) function which converts the string to a date representation.
I gave the below specification:
LEAD_START_DATE=date_from_string(LEAD_START_DATE)

The job compiled and ran successfully but the value of the field is coming out to be NULL.Please let me know if i can use any other function to get the date in CCYY-MM-YY format.
[/quote]

Hi,

You cannot use all the transformer functions since modify operator doent support that. But you can use the date_from_string function with parameters.

In your example you can try date_from_string[%yyyy%mm%dd](LEAD_START_DATE)

Regards
dsusr