JSON filtering by time

Question

I have a JSON like this

[{
    "Event_code": "AB-001",
    "Interest_area": "Arts and Education",
    "Start_time": "9:00 AM",
    "End_time": "3:00 PM",
    "Session_type": "Course information session"
}, {
    "Event_code": "AB-002",
    "Interest_area": "Arts and Education",
    "Start_time": "12:30 PM",
    "End_time": "1:00 PM",
    "Session_type": "Course information session"
}, {
    "Event_code": "AB-003",
    "Interest_area": "",
    "Start_time": "9:00 AM",
    "End_time": "3:00 PM",
    "Session_type": "Course information session"
}, {
    "Event_code": "AB-004",
    "Interest_area": "Business",
    "Start_time": "10:30 AM",
    "End_time": "11:00 AM",
    "Session_type": "Course information session"
}, {
    "Event_code": "AB-005",
    "Interest_area": "General Interest",
    "Start_time": "9:30 AM",
    "End_time": "1:30 PM",
    "Session_type": "Experience"
}, {
    "Event_code": "AB-006",
    "Interest_area": "Environment ,    Business       ",
    "Start_time": "11:00 AM",
    "End_time": "11:30 AM",
    "Session_type": "Course information session"
}]

How do I filter this JSON to get events with " Start_time " after 12 noon ? I am thinking of doing something like

let filtered_data = data.filter(o => o.Start_time >= '12 PM');

But of course this will not work as "Start_time" is 'string' and not 'date' type.

Answer 1

You do not have a JSON there - you have an array of objects. JSON is a particular way of formatting a string to represent an object .

Luckily, in your case, it should be very easy - to filter for events after 12 noon, you can simply check the Start_time property to see if the string includes PM :

 const input=[{"Event_code":"AB-001","Interest_area":"Arts and Education","Start_time":"9:00 AM","End_time":"3:00 PM","Session_type":"Course information session"},{"Event_code":"AB-002","Interest_area":"Arts and Education","Start_time":"12:30 PM","End_time":"1:00 PM","Session_type":"Course information session"},{"Event_code":"AB-003","Interest_area":"","Start_time":"9:00 AM","End_time":"3:00 PM","Session_type":"Course information session"},{"Event_code":"AB-004","Interest_area":"Business","Start_time":"10:30 AM","End_time":"11:00 AM","Session_type":"Course information session"},{"Event_code":"AB-005","Interest_area":"General Interest","Start_time":"9:30 AM","End_time":"1:30 PM","Session_type":"Experience"},{"Event_code":"AB-006","Interest_area":"Environment , Business ","Start_time":"11:00 AM","End_time":"11:30 AM","Session_type":"Course information session"}]; console.log( input.filter(({ Start_time }) => Start_time.includes('PM')) ); 

Note that includes is an ES6 function, you may want a polyfill .