Best way to Convert time stored as text, at different lengths to a standard time unit?

AYouQueTai

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  1. 365
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  1. Windows
Hello,

Wondering how you all would go about this. I have been mucking around with this all afternoon trying to go from LEFT to RIGHT and using LEN to come up with a formula that works for all of the following entries.
How would you standardize this? There are no seconds when there are hours. the minutes go from left to right depending on if there are hours. If there are 1-9 units it is a single digit rather than always having 2, so it moves the hour, minute or second identifier. Is there an easy way to do this?

Book2
AB
1Idling Time(The Goal) Idle Time
25m 8s00:05:08
35m 11s00:05:11
414m 33s00:14:33
51h 2m01:02:00
610h 5m10:05:00
712h 15m12:15:00
Sheet1


Thanks,
 

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Ignore my post #10
The approach nearly worked. Replace it with

--IF(ISERROR(FIND("h",A2)),TEXTJOIN(":",,TEXTSPLIT("0h"&A2,{"h","m ","s"})),TEXTJOIN(":",,TEXTSPLIT(A2,{"h","m"})))
 
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