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Challenge #4: Date Parsing

Awesomeville
7 - Meteor

My solution for Challenge #4 as per attached.

jdemeaux
8 - Asteroid

Cool to learn RegEx stuff! Thank you!

LukeM
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)

Nice fun RegEx exercise. Always easier to use https://regex101.com/ to check your code.

Ziggy77
7 - Meteor

Well, after looking at the posted solution, mine doesn`t seem to be the optimal one :) But it is a solution :)

Shifty
12 - Quasar

I think this is my first crack at an advanced challenge and I have to say, what I did isn't pretty but I got the answer in the end.  If for whatever reason you did download my solution, you'll see I then went back and did it a quicker, nicer, better way (hence why the workflow splits after the first filter).

 

I apologise to everyone who sees this:

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Challenge 4 Flow.jpg

 

bklninjah
7 - Meteor

My solution. I don't use a lot of RegEx so this was a good practice.

mgcarrenard
7 - Meteor

My Solution

pfredin
7 - Meteor

My solution.

bkclaw113
10 - Fireball
 
gdell
7 - Meteor

This one took me hours to try and resolve... It was was certainly difficult and solution not pretty, but here it is...

 

PS. Be careful with one... I've seen a few solutions where the final result was actually incorrect (i.e. the wrong year calculated). It clearly is an advanced challenge!

 

Please let me know if you find any errors in my solution #alwayslearning