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Challenge #58: An Odd String to Date Conversion

Kanishkas5301
8 - Asteroid
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Probably not the most efficient way to do this but it works 

davidhe
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)

Easy, peasy, lemon-squeezy

 

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allwynthomas24
11 - Bolide
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LiuZhang
9 - Comet
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alishadhillon__
8 - Asteroid

Alteryx was weirdly cutting off my last digit after the formula so I had to output as a new column, convert and then deselect the old in the select tool.

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 Got there in the end though!

rockyw9
8 - Asteroid

See solution attached.

ubifriends
7 - Meteor

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SarahJ1
7 - Meteor

I broke mine down into quite a few steps compared to other solutions - but as long as you get to the answer guess it doesn't matter!

 

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juliabarale002
8 - Asteroid

:datetime:

jjrbondoc
8 - Asteroid
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DateTimeParse(Switch(Left([date],1),'','0','19','1','20') + Right([date],6),'%Y%m%d')