In Excel worksheet, how could you extract the date from text strings as following screenshot shown? This article, I will talk about a useful formula to solve it.
Extract date from text strings with array formula in worksheet
To extract only date from a list of text strings, the following array formula can help you, please do as this:
1. Enter the below formula into a blank cell where you want to get the result, and then press Enter keys together, and only the date is extracted as following screenshot shown:
2. Then select the formula cell, and drag the fill handle down to the cells you want to apply this formula, and you will get the results as you need, see screenshot:
Notes:
In the above formula, A2 is the cell which contains the date you want to extract;
If the cell contains other numbers, this formula will not work correctly；
The formula cannot correctly extract date while there is more than one date in the text string.
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I'm aware that the formula wont work if there are other numbers in the cell, however, is there a way to only extract numbers that are in date format?
Example: People 5/ 2/12/20
Ignore the 5 and only output the 2/12/2020
Hello, Adam,
The formula has been fixed as below:
=MID(A2,MIN(IFERROR(MIN(FIND({0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9},A2&"0123456789",1)),LEN(A2)+1)),LOOKUP(1,0*MID(A2,ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A2))),1),ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A2)))) + 1 - MIN(IFERROR(MIN(FIND({0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9},A2&"0123456789",1)),LEN(A2)+1)))
I'm experiencing a problem with this formula not displaying the entire date value.
Similar to Adam Tabor, the formula was displaying the date value as expected up until 01/01/2020. Since then, the date value is missing the last digit
Example:
Cell A1 contains the string "Monthly-Returned-Ticket-Report-01-29-2020"
Cell A2 contains the following formula:
=MID(A1,MIN(IFERROR(FIND({0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9},A1,1),LEN(A1)+1)),LOOKUP(1,0/MID(A1,ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A1))),1),ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A1)))) + 1 - MIN(IFERROR(FIND({0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9},A1,1),LEN(A1)+1)))
Expected Result: Cell A2 displays the value "01-29-2020"
Actual Result: Cell A2 displays the value "01-29-202"
Hoping someone has an idea about what needs to be tweaked to deal with this new behavior since the new year?
Hello, Neil,
The formula in this article has been updated, please apply the below formula:
=MID(A2,MIN(IFERROR(MIN(FIND({0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9},A2&"0123456789",1)),LEN(A2)+1)),LOOKUP(1,0*MID(A2,ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A2))),1),ROW(INDIRECT("1:"&LEN(A2)))) + 1 - MIN(IFERROR(MIN(FIND({0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9},A2&"0123456789",1)),LEN(A2)+1)))
