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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Weird date difference problem Post 302174832 by meeraKh on Wednesday 12th of March 2008 09:13:08 AM

03-12-2008

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HI Shawn,
NO- the date is in the filename itself - SHIP_606400_2008233202_20080206_070308083544.xml - in this case "20080206".
Also, there is only 1 shipment per XML file for the date mentioned in the file name.

Thanks for your help. Is there any way to convert a string to a Julian date?

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Originally Posted by ShawnMilo

Okay, I think I get it now. You have a directory with any number of XML files. You need to read them to find out the date (stored as text) from a certain position in a record in the XML file. Depending on whether that date falls within a certain range, you either want to process the file into your database, or move the whole XML file to another directory, where it will wait to be checked later.

Is that correct?

Can there be multiple orders per XML file? If so, what if there are different dates for the different orders?

Please post an example of the XML file (if it's small enough), or at least the line(s) with the date you are trying to check. If there are multiple lines in the XML file which do not have dates, explain how the program should figure out if a particular line should be checked or ignored.

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