I have a file with dozens of strings that I want to recast as dates. Luckily they are all of the exact same format. I can use the STRING TO DATE/TIME node just fine but its a lot of work to repeat the node many times over and makes the workflow ugly. So I decided to try it as a loop.
I created a file with a list of all the columns I needed to convert (one column per line) and read that file in. Then I passed the file to a TABLE ROW TO VARIABLE LOOP START node. The variable of columnname is passed to to the STRING TO DATE/TIME node.
This works great on the first iteration of the loop. It fails on the second because it says the file types do not match. In the second iteration of the loop I can see the first datae column is put back to to a string again.
Im not sure what I want to do is possible. Could someone confirm you can do this? Perhaps a link to a sample doing something similar will help me see my mistake. Thank you.