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normalizing dates regex replace?

pvara
8 - Asteroid

I have a mixed bag of dates I am trying format. The dates are formatted as follows:

06302020

20200630

 

My goal would be to use a formula tool to reformat those dates as follows

2020-06-30

2020-06-30

 

Any suggestions and thank you in advanced.

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fmvizcaino
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

Hi @pvara ,

 

I would suggest you to use datetimeparse function 2 times and then check which parse functions returned a non null date.

fmvizcaino_0-1591885052657.png

 

 

 

Best,

Fernando Vizcaino 

pvara
8 - Asteroid

Thank you that can work. very simple just what i needed without getting too fancy 🙂

JosephSerpis
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

Hi @pvara I mocked up a workflow let me know what you think?

 

Dates_11062020.JPG

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