I'm exporting a report from a diffrent scource and in one section it has this

"Yesterday ( Oct 1, 2012 12:00:00 AM - Oct 2, 2012 12:00:00 AM )"

Can anyone tell me how I can extract the First date only and paste it to
a diffrent cell? In this case it would be Oct 1, 2012 or 10/1/2012

With the string in A1, maybe something likethis would help:
=DATEVALUE(TRIM(MID(SUBSTITUTE(A1,"-",REPT(" ",100)),FIND("(",A1)+1,80)))