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Convert String to date in ADF

Raja 86 Reputation points
2022-07-06T05:17:00.537+00:00

Hello Team,
I am setting up a pipeline where I want to pull data from an external source using ADF pipeline.
I want to pull data of let's say yesterday nth day (today - n). So I have created a variable 'previousDay' using 

@adddays(startOfDay(utcnow()),-n)

The problem here is that, ADF doesnt allow to create Date variable/parameter ( so later I can use prevdate('dd') kind of function to access different fields of the Data variable).

Since the variable cannot be defined as 'Date' I am unable to use any date function. And if I define variable as String/Object, then there's no function to convert String to Date in the ADF UI.

could you please help here?

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  1. Suba Balaji 11,206 Reputation points
    2022-07-06T05:46:38.97+00:00

    Hi @Raja ,

    Thanks for posting your question on MS Q&A platform.

    Request you to kindly check this thread which discusses in similar lines (converting a string to date)

    Please revert in case you have further questions on it.

    thank you.