Convert text to date

[im_92]

Hi all, 

I am trying to convert a text column to a date format. 

The original column contains the date in this format: wednesday 2 october 2018. 
I want to have a column with the date in this format: 02-10-2018

Any suggestions? 

thanks 

[jthomson · Accepted solution]

If you split the column by the first instance of a space, i.e. getting rid of the day of the week, does that get it into a close enough format that it can automatically recognise it's a date?

[im_92]

that worked! Thanks! 

[Daviejoe]

@im_92   The explanation that @jthomson provided is the simpler way of what I posted.

Use a text delimiter of a space to remove the day of week and then you can format as a date.  

Job done.

[Daviejoe]

This should work, the bold text can be added after your source code

let
Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WKk9NyUstTkmsVDBSyE8uyU9KLVIwMjC0UIqNBQA=", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Date = _t]),
#"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(Source,{{"Date", type text}}),
#"Inserted Text After Delimiter" = Table.AddColumn(#"Changed Type", "Text After Delimiter", each Text.AfterDelimiter([Date], " "), type text),
#"Changed Type1" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Inserted Text After Delimiter",{{"Text After Delimiter", type date}})
in
#"Changed Type1"