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Calculate amount of letters and digit in a string

faiqz
8 - Asteroid

Hi, I will go straight to the question.

I have a list of business names. For example:

IDbusiness names

1

Apple Inc
221st Century Fix
31990 moons

 

By using Alteryx, I need to find the amount of letters and digits used in the name. For example if the string contain letters (eg :pen) then the result will display '3d'. If the string contains both letters and numbers (eg: 123abc) then the result will display '3t3d'. 't' represent the digits while 'd' represent letters (a-z). if the string contain 3 letters, then the result will display '3d'.

 

Okay, so for the result of the dummy dataset of the business names above, it will result to this:

 

IDbusiness names

result

1

Apple Inc8d
221st Century Fix2t12d
3golive906d2t

I'm still novice in Alteryx so I haven't explore widely the usage of Alteryx yet. I hope the experts that saw my post here will be able to help and assist me to complete my task. Thank you

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faiqz
8 - Asteroid

I'm sorry for the inconsistency of the dummy data values in column business names.

messi007
15 - Aurora
15 - Aurora

@faiqz,

 

Please see below :

 

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Attached the workflow,

Regards,

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faiqz
8 - Asteroid

Hi! This is awesome, Thank you for your kind and warm respond. I am just wondering. What if the business names has digits at the end of the string?

 

For example:

Cat90, the result will be 3d2t

01Apple, the result will be 2t5d

 

Is it possible to rearrange the pattern according to the string?

binuacs
21 - Polaris

@faiqz I updated @messi007 workflow 

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PhilipMannering
16 - Nebula
16 - Nebula

Another potential solution. Should be dynamic,

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faiqz
8 - Asteroid

Hi!

 

Sorry for the late reply. Yes this is the solution that I want. Thank you, I hope I can be as good as you in using alteryx in the future

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