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Challenge #4: Date Parsing

asteryx
8 - Asteroid

Another good lesson - from trying the challenge and reading through the other solutions (@markp201 and@MarqueeCrew showing off some RegEx skills).

I should have thought of a simple formula in a new field to concatenate the RegEx results, but did a Transpose/Summarize instead.

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elliemason
8 - Asteroid

Fun developing Regex skills - made myself do it within one tool using the '|' or operator!

RobertoEstrada
8 - Asteroid

OK, not sure if it is the best solution but it was fun to work on it.

TimothySr
6 - Meteoroid

My Solution: With RegEx parsing

 

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One column Regular expression: .*((?:\d{2}-|(?:\l)\d-|\u\l{2}\s\d+)(?:\u+-|\s|,\s)(?:\d{4}|\d{2})).*
Identified and parsed All Dates into one column

 

 

kennetheng
8 - Asteroid

Great way to learn RegEx. 

 

For some reason doing /d+ at the beginning of a parse would only grab one of the digits for me, every time. So I ended up having to do five columns for that one date that had a single digit day: 

 

.*(\d\d-[[:alpha:]][[:alpha:]][[:alpha:]]-\d+).*|

.*([[:alpha:]][[:alpha:]][[:alpha:]]\s\d+,\s\d+).*|

.*(\d\d+-[[:alpha:]]+-\d+).*|

.*([[:alpha:]]{3,4}\s\d+\s\d+).*|

.*(\d-[[:alpha:]][[:alpha:]][[:alpha:]]-\d+).*

 

Definitely a super useful capability I was unaware of. 

Scott_Anderson
Alteryx
Alteryx

Solution attached!

jwilson1
7 - Meteor

Not the most flexible way to accomplish this, but it matches the answer. 

PeterGoldey
11 - Bolide

Good thing I brushed up on RegEx at the conference.  Definitely a struggle. 

john_miller9
11 - Bolide

Great opportunity to dive deeper into Regex.  Had a very clunky response until I looked at @MarqueeCrew 's solution which really helped me better understand approaching a regex challenge.

 

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MarqueeCrew
20 - Arcturus
20 - Arcturus

@john_miller9

 

thanks for the positivity. 

 

Cheers,

 

Mark

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