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date_parse

The date function used to parse a date or heredatetime value, according to a given format string. A wide variety of parsing options are available. The full set of formatting characters supported and sample format strings can be found here

Parameter

Type

Description

stringValue

string

the string from which to parse date information

formatString

string

the format string

Returns: datetimestamp

Example

Query:

PREFIX : <https://ddw-doccorp.linked.data.world/d/sparql-function-sample-queries/>
PREFIX fn: <http://data.world/function/functions#>
PREFIX xsd: <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#>

SELECT (fn:date_parse("20010101", "yyyyMMdd") as ?date_parse)
{
}

Run query

Results:

date_parse

2001-01-01T00:00:00.000Z

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