I have this form of string entry:
002 0000 A C 00:00:20:01 00:00:31:23 00:01:29:24 00:01:41:21
From previous question I can capture it with:
Set re = New RegExp
re.Pattern = "C (\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}) (\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2})"
matches = re.Execute(prev)
Now I have 2 submatches that I need to perform arithmetic on.
How can I seperate out each submatch to a list of digit pairs seperated by ":" into a list(not sure of term?)?
These strings are timestamps that I want to decompose down to frame counts.
I expected to convert Timecode to 25 frames per second:
- 1st pair is hours to frame time base (25fps) 1 hour = 1*60*(60*25) = 9000
- 2nd pair is minutes to frame time base (25fps) 1 minute = 1*(60*25) = 1500
- 3rd pair is seconds to frame time base (25fps) 1 second = 1*25f
For example a submatch of 00:02:20:01 would convert to 3501 frames
Previous question for reference
EDIT Here's what I ended up with. I had to find the difference (datediff) between time values which returned an answer in "seconds", Then I convert this to time format with timeserial. But it appended with an AM/PM clock so I set the scripts region to Germany, which turns off the AM/PM suffix.
Option Explicit
'change system location to Germany, to simulate 24hour clock *no AM PM time
setlocale "de-de"
'TBA read whole data doc to grab the NameDetails and TC
Dim TC
'temporary data set, I will need to send each line to this search
TC ="002 0000 A C 00:00:20:01 00:00:23:23 00:01:29:24 00:01:41:21"
'Define search terms for each timecode element *this is not a result yet
Dim re1
re1 =".*?" 'Non-greedy match on filler
Dim re2
re2 ="((?:(?:[0-1][0-9])|(?:[2][0-3])|(?:[0-9])):(?:[0-5][0-9])(?::[0-5][0-9])?(?:\s?(?:am|AM|pm|PM))?)" 'HourMinuteSec 1
Dim re3
re3 =".*?" 'Non-greedy match on filler
Dim re4
re4 ="((?:(?:[0-1][0-9])|(?:[2][0-3])|(?:[0-9])):(?:[0-5][0-9])(?::[0-5][0-9])?(?:\s?(?:am|AM|pm|PM))?)" 'HourMinuteSec 2
Dim re5
re5 =".*?" 'Non-greedy match on filler
Dim re6
re6 ="((?:(?:[0-1][0-9])|(?:[2][0-3])|(?:[0-9])):(?:[0-5][0-9])(?::[0-5][0-9])?(?:\s?(?:am|AM|pm|PM))?)" 'HourMinuteSec 3
Dim re7
re7 =".*?" 'Non-greedy match on filler
Dim re8
re8 ="((?:(?:[0-1][0-9])|(?:[2][0-3])|(?:[0-9])):(?:[0-5][0-9])(?::[0-5][0-9])?(?:\s?(?:am|AM|pm|PM))?)" 'HourMinuteSec 4
'add timecode search terms to a search pattern
Dim r
Set r = New RegExp
r.Pattern = re1+re2+re3+re4+re5+re6+re7+re8
r.IgnoreCase = True
Dim m, timeDur, ts, Timeofday
Set m = r.Execute(TC)
'loop through timecodes to find duration between first 2 entries
If m.Item(0).SubMatches.Count > 0 Then
Dim time1
time1=m.Item(0).SubMatches.Item(0)
Dim time2
time2=m.Item(0).SubMatches.Item(1)
Dim time3
time3=m.Item(0).SubMatches.Item(2)
Dim time4
time4=m.Item(0).SubMatches.Item(3)
'find duration/difference between first 2 times, in seconds
timeDur=datediff("s", time1, time2)
'format result to a serial time format eg. 00:00:00
ts = TimeSerial(0, 0, timeDur)
'print duration result, will need to append track info and repeat. Then save to file
MsgBox (ts)
End If