oce (version 0.9-5)

ctimeToSeconds: Interpret a character string as a time interval

Description

Interpret a character string as a time interval

Usage

ctimeToSeconds(ctime)

Arguments

ctime

a character string (see Details.

Value

• A numeric value, the number of seconds represented by the string.

Details

Strings are of the form MM:SS or HH:MM:SS.

See Also

See secondsToCtime, the inverse of this.

Examples

library(oce)
cat("10      = ", ctimeToSeconds("10"), "s
", sep="")
cat("01:04   = ", ctimeToSeconds("01:04"), "s
", sep="")
cat("1:00:00 = ", ctimeToSeconds("1:00:00"), "s
", sep="")