String to Duration

Converts string cells to duration cells. The input strings can follow the ISO 8601 format (see date-based duration format or time-based duration format for details, e.g. P2Y3M1D), a short letter format (e.g., 2y 3M 1d or 2H 3m 1s), or a long word format (e.g., 2 years 3 months 1 day).
Commonly applied when preparing data containing text-based durations for calculation or further processing.

Options

String columns

The string columns to convert to duration columns.

Duration type

The type of the duration to parse.

• Auto-detected: Detects whether a date-based or time-based duration should be parsed. The type will be determined based on the first cell in each column which can be successfully parsed. Automatically detect whether the input is date-based or time-based.
• Date-based: Converts all included columns to date-based duration columns, with data type "Duration (Date-based)".
• Time-based: Converts all included columns to time-based duration columns, with data type "Duration (Time-based)".

If extraction fails

Action to take if the extraction fails.

• Insert missing: Sets the output cell to missing if the string column cannot be converted to the specified type.
• Fail: Fails with an error if the string column cannot be converted to the specified type.

Output columns

Depending on this setting, the output columns will either replace the modified columns, or be appended to the table with a suffix.

• Replace: Replaces the selected columns by the new columns.
• Append with suffix: Appends the selected columns to the input table with a new name that is the previous name plus the provided suffix.

Output column suffix

The suffix to append to the column names of the new columns.

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