I have an external file that is in the following format which i think is JSON but i am not 100% sure. {"result":["2008-09-29T00:00:00","2008-09-30T00:00:00","2008-10-01T00:00:00","2008-10-02T00:00:00","2008-10-03T00:00:00","2008-10-06T00:00:00","2008-10-07T00:00:00","2008-10-08T00:00:00","2008-10-09T00:00:00","2008-10-10T00:00:00","2008-10-13T00:00:00","2008-10-14T00:00:00","2008-10-15T00:00:00","2008-10-16T00:00:00","2008-10-17T00:00:00","2008-10-20T00:00:00","2008-10-21T00:00:00","2008-10-22T00:00:00","2008-10-23T00:00:00","2008-10-24T00:00:00","2008-10-27T00:00:00","2008-10-28T00:00:00","2008-10-29T00:00:00","2008-10-30T00:00:00","2008-10-31T00:00:00","2008-11-03T00:00:00","2008-11-04T00:00:00","2008-11-05T00:00:00","2008-11-06T00:00:00","2008-11-07T00:00:00","2008-11-10T00:00:00","2008-11-11T00:00:00","2008-11-12T00:00:00","2008-11-13T00:00:00","2008-11-14T00:00:00","2008-11-17T00:00:00","2008-11-18T00:00:00","2008-11-19T00:00:00","2008-11-20T00:00:00","2008-11-21T00:00:00","2008-11-24T00:00:00","2008-11-25T00:00:00","2008-11-26T00:00:00","2008-11-27T00:00:00"]} I am trying to get the miniumun date and maximum dates in the format MM/DD/YYYY so that…