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Breaking a sentence in to multiple columns by fixed length without breaking words

IMSL
7 - Meteor

Hi everyone,

Is there any solution in Alteryx to breaking a text field in to multiple fields by fixed length, without breaking words.

 

Lets say this is the text field:

"Alteryx is an American computer software company based in Irvine, California, with a development center in Broomfield, Colorado. The company's products are used for data science and analytics."

 

I want to break it in to multiple fields and each field has 20 characters length.

 

I used RegEx as showing the picture and I got these:

First outcome field: "Alteryx is an Americ"

Second outcome field: "an computer software"

...

 

I dont want American breaks in to "Americ" and "an"

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ShankerV
17 - Castor

@IMSL 

 

One way of doing this.,

 

ShankerV_0-1675779730528.png

 

 

ShankerV
17 - Castor

Hi @IMSL 

 

Wanted to have as Columns as per your requirement.

Here is the output to have in columns.

 

ShankerV_0-1675779880241.png

 

HomesickSurfer
12 - Quasar

Hi @ShankerV I like this!

IMSL
7 - Meteor

Thanks @ShankerV for the help :)

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