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Excel Powerquery converting incorrect dates
Hi All, I am extracting dates from a text column and converting them into dates. I have Some dates getting corrrectly parsed but however some dates are getting incorrectly parsed. I am us...
Adityaa46 Then I suspect that some texts have trailing spaces. For example, if the text ends with "...Final_25Jan21 " and you take the last 7 characters, PQ returns "5Jan21 ". Use the Trim option on the text column before you split it.
I just marked them as an example of the error. I am aware that the dates are wrongly formatted in PQ.
Steps which i took to extract dates from C column
1. Extract last 7 letters from the text and add it in a new column
2. Change its data type to Date.
Adityaa46 Then I suspect that some texts have trailing spaces. For example, if the text ends with "...Final_25Jan21 " and you take the last 7 characters, PQ returns "5Jan21 ". Use the Trim option on the text column before you split it.
- It works 🙂
Thanks for catching the error 🙂