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Donerandparmo1's avatar
5 months ago
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Remove Characters from String which are present elsewhere in the string

Hi All,   Looking to clean a date column, but only some of the values are affected by random characters being included, as such:   I'd have done a simple Text.Remove but as you can see,...
  • grazitti_sapna's avatar
    5 months ago

    Hi Donerandparmo1,

     

    I would suggest instead of using text. remove, you should extract the date from the column by using 

     

    Date.FromText(
    Text.Select([Start Date], {"0".."9","-","/"})
    ) otherwise null

     

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