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Split (left) a text column based on '-' or '_' as Delimiter?
- 8 years ago
You could also use a formula like;
Column x = left(SUBSTITUTE(Table6[Column1],"-","_"),FIND("_", SUBSTITUTE(Table6[Column1],"-","_"),1,LEN(SUBSTITUTE(Table6[Column1],"-","_"))+1)-1)able6[Column1],"-","_"))+1)-1) - 8 years ago
gooranga1 Thanks for suggestion and giving an idea to approach this problem.
with some changes, this worked for me
left(SUBSTITUTE(ad_word_api_report_config[client_customer_name],"-","_"),FIND("_", SUBSTITUTE(ad_word_api_report_config[client_customer_name],"-","_"),1,LEN(SUBSTITUTE(ad_word_api_report_config[client_customer_name],"-","_"))+1)-1)
- Anonymous8 years ago
You can also use Splitter.SplitTextByAnyDelimiter({List of delimiters},Source)
list of delimiters can be {"&","/"}
You could also use a formula like;
Column x = left(SUBSTITUTE(Table6[Column1],"-","_"),FIND("_", SUBSTITUTE(Table6[Column1],"-","_"),1,LEN(SUBSTITUTE(Table6[Column1],"-","_"))+1)-1)able6[Column1],"-","_"))+1)-1)gooranga1 Thanks for suggestion and giving an idea to approach this problem.
with some changes, this worked for me
left(SUBSTITUTE(ad_word_api_report_config[client_customer_name],"-","_"),FIND("_", SUBSTITUTE(ad_word_api_report_config[client_customer_name],"-","_"),1,LEN(SUBSTITUTE(ad_word_api_report_config[client_customer_name],"-","_"))+1)-1)