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Use Regex to delimit a cell to different columns

Gamaliel
10 - Fireball

Hello,

 

How can I delimit 20130421,20201230|Rodrigo R. Duterte, 06-30-2021 to create the following:

 

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Thank you.

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DawnDuong
13 - Pulsar
13 - Pulsar

Hi @Gamaliel 

you can do this with a single Text to column tool by setting multiple delimiters 

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as to the formatting of the date field, you can use The Datetime tool to convert string to date and then to the required string format.

dawn 

Gamaliel
10 - Fireball

Massive thanks Dawn 

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