Works for me: > strptime("17_35_14.01234.mp3","%H_%M_%OS")$sec [1] 14.01234 > strptime("17_35_14.mp3","%H_%M_%OS")$sec [1] 14
Just leave off the ".mp3" in your time pattern. Relevant section from the help ("Details") for strptime: strptime converts character vectors to class "POSIXlt": its input x is first converted by as.character. Each input string is processed as far as necessary for the format specified: any trailing characters are ignored. R version 3.3.2 (2016-10-31) Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit) Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1 Stephen C. Upton Faculty Associate - Research SEED (Simulation Experiments & Efficient Designs) Center Operations Research Department Naval Postgraduate School Mobile: 804-994-4257 NIPR: scup...@nps.edu SIPR: upto...@nps.navy.smil.mil SEED Center web site: http://harvest.nps.edu -----Original Message----- From: R-devel [mailto:r-devel-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of frede...@ofb.net Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2017 9:59 PM To: Dirk Eddelbuettel Cc: R-devel Subject: Re: [Rd] bug with strptime, %OS, and "." On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 08:13:21PM -0600, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > On 10 January 2017 at 17:48, frede...@ofb.net wrote: > | Hi R Devel, > | > | I just ran into a corner case with 'strptime'. Recall that the "%OS" > | conversion accepts fractional seconds: > | > | > strptime("17_35_14.01234.mp3","%H_%M_%OS.mp3")$sec > | [1] 14.01234 > | > | Unfortunately for my application it seems to be "greedy", in that it > | tries to parse a decimal point which might belong to the rest of the > | format: > | > | > strptime("17_35_14.mp3","%H_%M_%OS.mp3") > | [1] NA > > Maybe just don't use the optional O: > > R> strptime("17_35_14.mp3","%H_%M_%S.mp3")$sec > [1] 14 > R> > R> strptime("17_35_14.mp3","%H_%M_%S.mp3") > [1] "2017-01-10 17:35:14 CST" > R> For my application I wanted to be able to accept both formats, "14.mp3" and "14.01234.mp3". Since "14" and "14.01234" both parse as numbers, I thought "%OS" should accept both. Yes, I can work around it fairly easily. Frederick ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel