How to convert text to date

shadmani

Hi ,

 

 I have a text formatted line item which is a date .I want to convert it to Date format .

 

I tried to break it into three Year ,Month and day using

 

Value(RIGHT(Line item,4))

Value(Mid(Line item,4,2))

Value(LEFT(line Item,2))

 

It works for 12/10/2012 but what about 2/3/2012 ??

 

Note -- Can't change source text to date format .

Misbah

@shadmani 

 

Avoid hardcoding the parameters of the syntax - There are many functions that can be put to use here as @ArunManickam already mentioned. FIND, MID,LENGTH,VALUE,RIGHT,LEFT,DATE

 

See below

 

Hope that helps

Misbah

ArunManickam

You have to identify the day, month, year using the seperators (/). Find the seperator position using the function FIND. Seperate the text between the seperators, using MID.

 

You have to use a combination of FIND, MID and LEN functions to do it.

 

Thanks

Arun

shadmani

@Misbah 

 

Thanks for detailed explanation. Looks like it will solve my problem . 

 

Chmacpherson

Thanks for this solution!

 

Modification for DateTime Text String

My text line item was formatted as DateTime (e.g., 8/3/2021 4:52:47), so I modified Misbah's solution to the following:

 

 

Notes

1. Used the MID function to find the year - found the second "/" and added a +1 to set the start position.
2. Flipped the Day and Month calculations.

allen

Just a few corrections for US format Dates with a little bonus if you just need all dates in a month to show the 1st of the month:

Opening Date - Find /	FIND("/", Opening Date, 0)
Opening Date - Find //	FIND("/", Opening Date, 'Opening Date - Find /' + 1)
Opening Date - Day-Comm	VALUE(MID(Opening Date, 'Opening Date - Find /' + 1, 'Opening Date - Find //' - 'Opening Date - Find /' - 1))
Opening Date - Month-Comm	VALUE(LEFT(Opening Date, 'Opening Date - Find /' - 1))
Opening Date - Year-Comm	VALUE(RIGHT(Opening Date, LENGTH(Opening Date) - 'Opening Date - Find //'))
Opening Date (Date)	DATE('Opening Date - Year-Comm', 'Opening Date - Month-Comm', 'Opening Date - Day-Comm')
Opening Date (Begin Month)	DATE(VALUE(RIGHT(Opening Date, 4)), VALUE(LEFT(Opening Date, FIND("/", Opening Date, 1) - 1)), 1)

Swilson84

Thank you for this solution! It's really helpful and I will use it in the future.