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PowerBI123456
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Date Formatting

Hi,

 

I have a different date formats that I am bringing over (column 1 below) in text, and need to convert them into the date format as shown in column 2 in power query:

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Any suggestions? Thanks!

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Anonymous
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Measure =
VAR _int =
    IFERROR (
        CONVERT ( MAX ( 'Table'[Column1] ), INTEGER ),
        MAX ( 'Table'[Column1] )
    )
RETURN
    IFERROR ( format(CONVERT ( _int, DATETIME ),"dd-mm-yyyy"), format(MAX ( 'Table'[Column1] ),"dd-mm-yyyy") )

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Anonymous
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Measure =
VAR _int =
    IFERROR (
        CONVERT ( MAX ( 'Table'[Column1] ), INTEGER ),
        MAX ( 'Table'[Column1] )
    )
RETURN
    IFERROR ( format(CONVERT ( _int, DATETIME ),"dd-mm-yyyy"), format(MAX ( 'Table'[Column1] ),"dd-mm-yyyy") )
Anonymous
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this might be a start

Measure = IF (CONTAINSSTRING(selectedvalue('Table'[Column1]),"/") ,   FORMAT(  DATEVALUE(selectedvalue('Table'[Column1])), "mm/dd/yyyy"),
IF(CONTAINSSTRING(selectedvalue('Table'[Column1]),"-") ,    FORMAT(  DATEVALUE(selectedvalue('Table'[Column1])),"mm/dd/yyyy")
))

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