I’m trying to concatenate several csv files and create a ‘DATE_TIME’ column based on the specific column ‘NAME’. I apply an IF condition for extract the substring of DATE_TIME from NAME based on the appearance of a string ‘RE’.
Here’s my code:
import pandas as pd
import numpy as np
import os
path_dataset = r'C:Userstest'
def get_file(path_dataset):
    files = os.listdir(path_dataset) #check file list
    files.sort() #sort file
    file_list = []
    for file in files:
        path = path_dataset + "\" + file
        if (file.startswith("test")) and (file.endswith(".csv")):
        file_list.append(path)
    return (file_list)
read_columns = ['NAME']
read_files = get_file(path_dataset)
all_df = []
for file in read_files:
    df = pd.read_csv(file, usecols = read_columns)
    if (str(df['NAME'].astype(str).str[23:25]) == 'RE-'):
        df['DATE_TIME'] = df['NAME'].astype(str).str[26:40]
    else:
        df['DATE_TIME'] = df['NAME'].astype(str).str[22:37]
    
all_df.append(df)
Concat_table = pd.concat(all_df, axis=0)
Concat_table = Concat_table.sort_values(['DATE_TIME'])
Concat_table.head()
Concat_table.to_csv(os.path.join(path_dataset, 'Concate_all.csv'), index=False)
My question is at the IF-ELSE statement. They return the same position of the substring, so that I get result below. This is not what I want, with the name ‘RE’ I still want to extract the date and time. What did I make a mistake for the code? Thank you.
Added my dataframe:
dic1 = {"NAME": ['1234567890-ABCDEFGHIJ-RE-20210802-194706', 
'1234567890-ABCDEFGHIJ-20210801-200321']}
dic2 = {"NAME": ['1234567890-ABCDEFGHIJ-RE-20210731-050457', 
'1234567890-ABCDEFGHIJ-20210801-122356']}
df1 = pd.DataFrame(dic1)
df2 = pd.DataFrame(dic2)
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Answer
No need of IF statement. Split on – and concat the 2 last elements
EDIT
f = lambda x: (x["NAME"].split("-"))[-2] + "-" + (x["NAME"].split("-"))[-1].replace('.xlsx', '')
for file in read_files:
    df = pd.read_csv(file, usecols = read_columns)
    df['DATE_TIME'] = df.apply(f, axis=1)
