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Lifan
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9 years ago
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Help please! Remove a string of text with fixed format

Hi,   I'm a new user and just playing with a datatable, trying to clean up a text field before publish to users.   The field is a free text in our system. However in some lines it included a syst...
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    GilbertQ
    9 years ago

    Hi Lifan

     

    No problem when you have created the additional column (Column1), when it does not find anything after the delimiter it should then have a result of null 

     

    So then what you can do is to create a conditional column where if the Additional Column (Column1) is null then use the Original column. 

     

    In doing that you will get the output you require.