Parsing non-standard date format in Excel cell

Question

I want to convert dates formatted like \"March 30th 2017, 05:00:00.000\" to an excel date value? What\'s the most elegant solution I can do this with using a cell-formula and no

Answer 1

This will do the standard "rd","th","st","nd"

=--(LEFT(A1,MIN(FIND({"rd","th","st","nd"},A1 & "thrdstnd"))-1)& ", " & SUBSTITUTE(MID(A1, MIN(FIND({"rd","th","st","nd"},A1 & "thrdstnd"))+2,LEN(A1)),",",""))

You can add other suffixes as you need to the formula

Then you can format it as you like.