Comparing two strings and checking greater than 1hr

[Arya_Squares]

I m having to string vaules

Str_starttime = 02: 00pm
Str_endtime = 05:00pm

I need to check
The difference between this 2 variables is greater than or equal to 1hr

Str_starttime - Str_endtime > = 1hr

[ppr (Peter)]

@Arya_Squares

05:00pm

In general we want to do it on Timespan base. The PM/AM Marker we can better handle with DateTime conversion options (CDate, Convert.ToDateTime, Datetime.ParseExact). With TImeOfDay we get the Time part and will use it for the check

[Legoman]

Strongly recommend you parse them into datetimes and use the .NET libraries to check the difference (use a System.TimeSpan variable for the difference).

E.g. use something like this DateTime.TryParse Method (System) | Microsoft Learn

and then something like this

Dim diff1 As System.TimeSpan
' diff1 gets 185 days, 14 hours, and 47 minutes.
diff1 = date2.Subtract(date1)

But in UiPath you’d use the assign activity instead of writing it out in code