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Challenge #4: Date Parsing

spencerhong
Alteryx
Alteryx

Advanced level - check. Pretty challenging

Spencer Hong
Sr. Competitive Intelligence Analyst, Product Management
Alteryx
CandiceDB
Alteryx
Alteryx

My solution:

 

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RashedDS
8 - Asteroid

I liked practicing Regular Expression

 

My solution..

 

Update: 

I improved my solution, reduced the number of tools in the canvas from 9 to 5

Maskell_Rascal
13 - Pulsar

Decided to try to write one massive formula to handle the date conversion after the RegEx parsing. Fun challenge!

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DateTimeParse(IIF(IsEmpty([RegExOut1]),trim(left(REGEX_Replace([RegExOut2], '[[:alpha:]]', ''),3))+'-'+Trim(REGEX_Replace([RegExOut2], '([^][a-z])', ''))+'-'+Trim(right(REGEX_Replace([RegExOut2], '[[:alpha:]]', ''),4)),[RegExOut1]),'%d-%b-%Y')​

 

AdrianMa
6 - Meteoroid

My solution.

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Lili1
7 - Meteor

my soultion!

bandhakaviarun
6 - Meteoroid

Here is my solution.

SWalker
7 - Meteor
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Steph_Maddrell
8 - Asteroid
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ENix
8 - Asteroid
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First one tool solution! Probably could rationalise expression further using or (|) in the regex.