Re: date formatting

Hey, Brian
Have you looked into cd_string ? You can perhaps convert to a numerical
date format first, than back to string formatting it the way you want.

http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/User_contributed/cd_string.shtml

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Brian McNoldy <bmcnoldy@rsmas.miami.edu>wrote:

> I was wondering if there's an elegant method to convert date date/time in
> the format YYYYMMDDHH to DMonYYYY HH (e.g. 2013100112 --> 1Oct2013 12)?
> Basically, to define in an input format and an output format.
> I'm currently extracting substrings for each field, and using 12 if
> statements to switch from MM to Mon. Not a big deal of course, but I
> didn't know if there are any existing functions that might be able to
> handle this... I couldn't spot any.
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
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