Convert a string containing hours, minutes, seconds to decimal hours

Question

I have an automatically generated Excel sheet that has a column containing string values representing time spans. The values have the following format:

17 ho         


        

Answer 1

There may be better ways, but this is one way of doing it.

hours = Trim(Split(timeString, "hours,")(0))
minutes = Trim(Split(Split(timeString, "hours,")(1), " minutes,")(0))
seconds = Trim(Split(Split(Split(timeString,"hours,")(1)," minutes,")(1), "seconds")(0))

TimeInPercentage = CInt(hours) + (1/60) * (CInt(minutes)) + (1/3600) * CInt(seconds)