Convert varchar to date in BO Universe with Substring and instring function

to_date(substr(xxxx_v.e_details,instr(xxxx_v.e_details,'|',1,2)+1,9),'DD-MM-YYYY') In the universe while defining the object as date i was facing probs can any body help me out. the column xxxx_e_details is having the datatype varchar in database and the third string is date while i was creating the date object in the universe with the above syntax it was getting the error
The data in this obect is like this xxxx_v.e_details -> wwww|eeee|MM-DD-YY|
Edited by: mohammed kashif on Mar 31, 2011 11:47 AM

i am getting the data but it is in the format 01-03-0201. The year format for 2010 is populating as 0201. i am not able to think whether it is due to instring function which is reading data like this. Need suggestion from experts.............

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