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magnus_b
Advocate II
6 years agoDuplicate last column
Hi, I have a source file with a dynamic number of columns, e.g.: Year, Month, Budget revision 1, Budget revision 2, Budget revision 3... I want to create a column called "Latest budget", tha...
amitchandak
Super User
6 years agomagnus_b ,Can you share sample data and sample output in table format?
magnus_b
Advocate II
6 years agoamitchandak See sample input and output below. The tricky part here is that the number of "Budget revision X" columns can vary, and the function needs to always duplicate the right-most column.
Sample input 1:
| Year | Month | Budget revision 1 | Budget revision 2 |
| 2020 | 1 | 903920 | 1008930 |
| 2020 | 2 | 239450 | 345481 |
| 2020 | 3 | 802380 | 802389 |
| 2020 | 4 | 239509 | 299900 |
Sample output 1:
| Year | Month | Budget revision 1 | Budget revision 2 | Last budget |
| 2020 | 1 | 903920 | 1008930 | 1008930 |
| 2020 | 2 | 239450 | 345481 | 345481 |
| 2020 | 3 | 802380 | 802389 | 802389 |
| 2020 | 4 | 239509 | 299900 | 299900 |
Sample input 2:
| Year | Month | Budget revision 1 | Budget revision 2 | Budget revision 3 |
| 2020 | 1 | 903920 | 1008930 | 901512 |
| 2020 | 2 | 239450 | 345481 | 437457 |
| 2020 | 3 | 802380 | 802389 | 568852 |
| 2020 | 4 | 239509 | 299900 | 345634 |
Sample output 2:
| Year | Month | Budget revision 1 | Budget revision 2 | Budget revision 3 | Last budget |
| 2020 | 1 | 903920 | 1008930 | 901512 | 901512 |
| 2020 | 2 | 239450 | 345481 | 437457 | 437457 |
| 2020 | 3 | 802380 | 802389 | 568852 | 568852 |
| 2020 | 4 | 239509 | 299900 | 345634 | 345634 |