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Is there a way to read this type of military time for arrivals?

Hello, I am trying to read column B(TIME_CREATED_) to as the interarrival time to create objects. This time is recorded in military time format. The format follows 24 hrs hms but without any spaces.

For e.g. 850 stands for 8 mins 50 seconds past 12pm in the night.


Do I need to reformat this outside of flexsim?

Thanks in advance.

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  • You can convert it into a string and split the string into minutes and hours. Please look into the methods of string class. https://docs.flexsim.com/en/21.2/Reference/CodingInFlexSim/FlexScriptAPIReference/Basic/string.html
  • You can use a modulus operator “%“ to get an integer rest by division by 100. Then you draw the minutes and divide the number by 100. Then you get the hours of a day. If it is a format like ddhhmm you have to filter the number by modulus operator, integer division and subtraction in an additional iteration.
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Makes sense. So I have to format the string regardless if I do it inside flexsim or outside. Thanks @Joerg Vogel
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