dfr as-date
for dataframe
Converts string to date.
Signature
> dfr as-date (format) --not-exact
Parameters
format
: formatting date string--not-exact
(-n)
: the format string may be contained in the date (e.g. foo-2021-01-01-bar could match 2021-01-01)
Notes
Format example: "%Y-%m-%d" => 2021-12-31 "%d-%m-%Y" => 31-12-2021 "%Y%m%d" => 2021319 (2021-03-19)
Examples
Converts string to date
> ["2021-12-30" "2021-12-31"] | dfr into-df | dfr as-datetime "%Y-%m-%d"