Results for “Dates & process utilities”
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Extract numbers from text
Find all runs of ASCII digits in a string and convert the matches to integers.
regex✓ Tested
Extract part of a date
Read a calendar component with EXTRACT.
EXTRACT✓ Tested
Filter lines by literal text
Linux Commands: Filter lines by literal text using GNU/Linux commands in an empty practice directory.
Linux Commands✓ Tested
Find empty regular files
Linux Commands: Use the empty predicate with a file type constraint.
Linux Commands✓ Tested
Find files larger than a byte threshold
Linux Commands: Use the c suffix for exact byte units with GNU find size tests.
Linux Commands✓ Tested
Find lines common to two sorted files
Linux Commands: Use comm -12 to suppress the two columns of unmatched lines.
Linux Commands✓ Tested
Find lines unique to the first sorted file
Linux Commands: Use comm -23 to retain only records absent from the second input.
Linux Commands✓ Tested
Find the final day of a month
Use EOMONTH without manually calculating month length.
EOMONTH✓ Tested
Find the first day of a month
Round a date to its calendar month boundary.
date✓ Tested
Format a decimal amount
Use invariant culture to print a C# decimal with two places.
C#✓ Tested
Format a decimal number
Format a Java decimal with two digits and a fixed locale.
Java✓ Tested
Format a timestamp
Extract a year and month from ISO timestamp text.
strftime✓ Tested