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idage
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Helper I

DATE FROM A TEXT STRING

Goodmorning community,

i need to solve a problem. I have a column containing for ex:

 

03-Jul-23 A

08-Nov-23*

03/11/2023

03/11/2023 A

03-Jul-23

and i need to extract date all in the same format.

Could you help me?

 

Thank you very much in advance.

 

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Vijay_A_Verma
Most Valuable Professional
Most Valuable Professional

Use this formula in a custom column where [Dates] is the column name

Text.Start([Dates], 6) & Splitter.SplitTextByCharacterTransition({"0".."9"}, (c) => not List.Contains({"0".."9"}, c)) (Text.Middle([Dates], 6, Text.Length([Dates]))){0}

Sample code for testing

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WMjDW9SrN0TUyVnBUitUB8i10/fLLgHwtCNdY39BQ38jAyBiNC1MO0w7mGZpAeVFKsbEA", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Dates = _t]),
    #"Added Custom" = Table.AddColumn(Source, "Extracted Dates", each Text.Start([Dates], 6) & Splitter.SplitTextByCharacterTransition({"0".."9"}, (c) => not List.Contains({"0".."9"}, c)) (Text.Middle([Dates], 6, Text.Length([Dates]))){0})
in
    #"Added Custom"

Thank you very much for your help .

It generally works but it give me Error when it find cells containin NULL or date in this format:

 

03/11/2023

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Vijay_A_Verma
Most Valuable Professional
Most Valuable Professional

Use this in a custom column

try [a=Text.From([Dates]), b=Text.Start(a, 6) & Splitter.SplitTextByCharacterTransition({"0".."9"}, (c) => not List.Contains({"0".."9"}, c)) (Text.Middle(a, 6, Text.Length(a))){0}][b] otherwise null

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