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Challenge #414: Mastering Date Formats

AronasZilys
Asteroid

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martinson
Bolide

Loves dates

Cheers,
martinson

LinkedIN

Bulien
BS_THE_ANALYST
15 - Aurora
15 - Aurora

Two solution routes. Learned the ifelse contains date parsing trick from marqueecrew on an oooooold challenge. Revamped this with a regex_countmatches here, love this as a identity tool.

 

also tried doing it without using datetimeparse! Was a fun route.

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All the best,
BS

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Bulien
Ishan_Choubey
Meteor

Done !!!

Pilsner
Pulsar

My solution:

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Complete!!!!

 

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rmassambane
Bolide

414

ehendershot
Meteor
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annbriceAB
Asteroid

A fun one.

RM_MOHANTY
Meteor

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