Dear Narayan and oldchippy - thanks very much for the quick feedback. Oldchippy - that was brilliant and it worked!
Thanks for the welcome to the forum - I'd been reading through for a while, but this is my first post. This was very helpful and I hope to continue using it.
Dear experts - I have a file with date and other gibberish added in each line as below. I need a formula that can:
1)Remove all characters after the date (this could be 18 - 20 characters)
2)Convert the remaining date piece into readable date format
2012-1-10.22.10. 38. 154000000...