Use of contains key word in select statement

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i have two data table and datetime as a datetype need to check and compare the values of Datetime

i thought of converting the value of the datetime column to string and use = and which am not able to perform. any suggestions for the same…??

how to use contains key word in select statement in UIpath…??

Thank you

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Hi,
@Divyashreem

Yes you can do the same way but before that check the format of the date and time… if u want to check date alone use toshortdatestring()

Regards,
Arivu

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Hi,

I’m not understanding your problem fully.

If you would like to compare the datetime, I would recommend keeping it as a datetype so the format is consistent and let’s you compare dates together.
So you can do for example, datetime = Now or datetime < Now

If you do want to convert to string then you can do datetime.ToString or .ToShortdatestring like Arivu mentioned :stuck_out_tongue:

If you would like to filter a date table by the datetime, then I would suggest looking at the .Where method which let’s you use = and .Contains and all other functions you are used to using.
An example of that is here:

datatable.AsEnumerable.Where(Function(row) CDate(row("Date")) = Now ).ToArray

Then, you can perform For each loop on that array of datarows. Or change .ToArray to .CopyToDataTable for a new table.

I hope this is clear.

Thanks.

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@Divyashreem, converting that entire column to string can be done as follow,

Datatable.Asenumerable(). Select ("Convert(ColName,System.string) = ‘string value’ "). CopyToDatatable

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