# Logic calculate split a string
**URL:** https://community.homey.app/t/logic-calculate-split-a-string/106329
**Category:** Questions & Help
**Tags:** logic
**Created:** [March 15, 2024, 12:50pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/logic-calculate-split-a-string/106329 "2024-03-15T12:50:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Goldunexist](https://community.homey.app/u/Goldunexist)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2024, 12:50pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/logic-calculate-split-a-string/106329/1 "2024-03-15T12:50:10Z")
Hi Everyone,
I have a question about splitting a particular string.
The string that I have holds a date and time like this: 2024-03- **16** T **14:00** :00.000+01:00
Now I want to extract the day, the hour and the minutes.
I found in another post something like {{ 0+(“”.split(“-”)[1]) }} in this way I get the year (2024) and for the month only the (3) but not the day (16). I cannot get the time at all.
I don’t have a homey pro or a bridge.
Can somebody help me out to provide something that works?
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### Author:  [@Boris\_Fers](https://community.homey.app/u/Boris_Fers)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2024, 3:17pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/logic-calculate-split-a-string/106329/2 "2024-03-15T15:17:52Z")
> [@Goldunexist](#):
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> 2024-03- **16** T **14:00** :00.000+01:00
You can also remove “0+” and you will get “01” in value. It depends on what you need.
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### Author:  [@Goldunexist](https://community.homey.app/u/Goldunexist)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2024, 6:57am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/logic-calculate-split-a-string/106329/3 "2024-03-16T06:57:50Z")
Thanks for your help @Boris_Fers this worked 😃
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### Author:  [@Andrew\_Whiteley](https://community.homey.app/u/Andrew_Whiteley)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2024, 10:15am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/logic-calculate-split-a-string/106329/4 "2024-09-26T10:15:58Z")
Thank you very much for this - however, the variable it saves for me is in quotation marks when stored in the text variable. How do you save without them? Thanks in advance.
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### Author:  [@robertklep](https://community.homey.app/u/robertklep)
#### Post date: [September 26, 2024, 10:22am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/logic-calculate-split-a-string/106329/5 "2024-09-26T10:22:26Z")
> [@Andrew\_Whiteley](#):
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> however, the variable it saves for me is in quotation marks when stored in the text variable
If you mean the “(a)Result” tag: it doesn’t contain quotation marks. Why do you think it does?
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### Author:  [@Persan](https://community.homey.app/u/Persan)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2025, 5:06pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/logic-calculate-split-a-string/106329/6 "2025-01-27T17:06:41Z")
I also get quotation marks in the result variable.
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### Author:  [@robertklep](https://community.homey.app/u/robertklep)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2025, 5:45pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/logic-calculate-split-a-string/106329/7 "2025-01-27T17:45:24Z")
I guess that flow card is broken then. You should contact Athom.
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### Author:  [@SunBeech](https://community.homey.app/u/SunBeech)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2025, 6:05pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/logic-calculate-split-a-string/106329/8 "2025-01-27T18:05:17Z")
As an alternative you can use the equivalent flow card from the [Better Logic Library](https://homey.app/nl-nl/app/net.i-dev.betterlogic/Better-Logic-Library/).
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Kawa](https://community.homey.app/u/Peter_Kawa)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2025, 6:05pm UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/logic-calculate-split-a-string/106329/9 "2025-01-27T18:05:28Z")
Create a numeric value (learned from Robert 😉)
