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Challenge #58: An Odd String to Date Conversion

ZacharyRyanTIL
8 - Asteroid

solved

ahsanaali
11 - Bolide

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karlhansen
9 - Comet
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pmyers
Alteryx
Alteryx

My solution attached.

Ruban
8 - Asteroid

Formula:

IF Left([date], 1) = "1"

THEN Replacefirst([date], Left([date], 1), "20")

ELSE ReplaceFirst([date], Left([date], 1), "19")

ENDIF

Krzysztof_Ch
7 - Meteor
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RMdL
7 - Meteor

This challenge is the same as challenge 46 no? Like same file and all! 

 

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gupta_sahil
8 - Asteroid

Here is my solution.

paul_houghton
12 - Quasar

Going Fancy in a single tool answer with regex, for the lols

 

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Carolyn
12 - Quasar
12 - Quasar

Solution attached. I did both a formula DateTimeParse and the DateTime tool, to practice both