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TextTimeToMinutes ( TimeText )

Converts complex human readable text input of time to minutes

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Tim Cimbura - Show more from this author LuminFire http://luminfire.com

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// Created by Tim Cimbura, LuminFire 2022 Let( [ // Shorten all units clean = Substitute(TimeText; ["days";"d"];["day";"d"];["dys";"d"];["dy";"d"]); clean = Substitute(clean; ["hours";"h"];["hour";"h"];["hrs";"h"];["hr";"h"]); clean = Substitute(clean; ["minutes";"m"];["minute";"m"];["mins";"m"];["min";"m"]); clean = Substitute(clean; ["seconds";"s"];["second";"s"];["secs";"s"];["sec";"s"]); // Put spaces around all units to get words clean = Substitute(clean; ["d";" d "]); clean = Substitute(clean; ["h";" h "]); clean = Substitute(clean; ["m";" m "]); clean = Substitute(clean; ["s";" s "]); // Change multiple spaces to spaces clean = Substitute(clean; [" ";" "]); // If there are no specified units then add on hours clean = If(PatternCount(clean;"d")=0 and PatternCount(clean;"h")=0 and PatternCount(clean;"m")=0 and PatternCount(clean;"s")=0; clean & " h"; clean); // Parse out 4 possible sets of numbers followed by units value1 = GetAsNumber(MiddleWords ( clean ; 1 ; 1 )); unit1 = MiddleWords ( clean ; 2 ; 1 ); value2 = GetAsNumber(MiddleWords ( clean ; 3 ; 1 )); unit2 = MiddleWords ( clean ; 4 ; 1 ); value3 = GetAsNumber(MiddleWords ( clean ; 5 ; 1 )); unit3 = MiddleWords ( clean ; 6 ; 1 ); value4 = GetAsNumber(MiddleWords ( clean ; 7 ; 1 )); unit4 = MiddleWords ( clean ; 8 ; 1 ); seconds1 =Case( unit1="d"; value1 * 86400; unit1="h"; value1 * 3600; unit1="m"; value1 * 60; unit1="s"; value1;); seconds2 =Case( unit2="d"; value2 * 86400; unit2="h"; value2 * 3600; unit2="m"; value2 * 60; unit2="s"; value2;); seconds3 =Case( unit3="d"; value3 * 86400; unit3="h"; value3 * 3600; unit3="m"; value3 * 60; unit3="s"; value3;); seconds4 =Case( unit4="d"; value4 * 86400; unit4="h"; value4 * 3600; unit4="m"; value4 * 60; unit4="s"; value4;); output = "minutes"; /* change this line to change output units */ divisor = Case( output = "days"; 86400; output = "hours"; 3600; output = "minutes"; 60; output = "seconds"; 1) ]; (seconds1+seconds2+seconds3+seconds4) / divisor ) Click to copy

This function will convert a human-readable time unit into a base unit in the desired format of days, hours, minutes, or seconds. Handles complex cases with combinations of up to 4 units of days, hours, minutes, and seconds.

Note: Decimal values must be entered with a leading zero. For example "0.5 seconds".

8/28/22 Updated with significant new functionality

 

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