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

If you want a true date and want to drop the time part then:

=DATEVALUE(SUBSTITUTE(LEFT(A1,FIND(",",A1)-1),"th",","))

You will need to nest SUBSTITUTE() functions to handle "nd" and "st" ordinals if you have them:

=DATEVALUE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(SUBSTITUTE(LEFT(A1,FIND(",",A1)-1),"th",","),"nd",","),"st",","))