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Challenge #4: Date Parsing

alexo
8 - Asteroid

That was hard - I managed to use three separate regex tools to match all the dates, then joined them based on most specific match to least specific

RotesDB
8 - Asteroid
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RWvanLeeuwen
11 - Bolide

Shout out to @markp201 for his RegEx solution for which I had to learn RegEx first in order to understand the meaning of it 😄

 

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Rant
7 - Meteor

Solution Attached. Regex makes this a lot easier!

 

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KMcKean
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)
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Fun!  With only four date formats, it seemed simpler to just filter and parse each format separately than to convert them.

acastelazo
8 - Asteroid

Learned a lot about regular expressions:

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(0?[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01]|JAN|FEB|MAR|MAY|APR|JUL|JUN|AUG|OCT|SEP|NOV|DEC)

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(JAN|FEB|MAR|MAY|APR|JUL|JUN|AUG|OCT|SEP|NOV|DEC|JULY|0?[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])

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(18\d\d| ?19\d\d|20\d\d|\d\d)
Marcel_Gavrila
8 - Asteroid

Here's my solution!

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brandowd
8 - Asteroid

Hi All - here's my solution. It somewhat lacks the same level of detail as the solution but works quite nicely. This one I loved doing as very typical of things I've had to clean up at work. 

garrettlem1017
8 - Asteroid

Used Regular Expression tool and DateTime Tool to extract dates and convert from strings.

piotrzawistowski
8 - Asteroid

My version.