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Column to Text carries the Delimiter with the 2nd column

dcrigger
6 - Meteoroid

I am new to Alteryx and I am using the column to text parse and I am splitting one column to two. The delimiter that is used is a : and it is bringing that delimiter with the second column after the split. How to i get rid of the :

 

Sample:

          Original data

 

Z13 : Doe,John

 

 after Text to Column

Z13 : Doe,John   

 

having trouble losing that colon

                               

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Luke_C
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

Hi @dcrigger 

 

I tried with this data and didn't see the same behavior. Could you share a screenshot of the configurations you used? See attached.

 

Qiu
21 - Polaris
21 - Polaris

@dcrigger 
Agree with @Luke_C , the ":" should give the desired output.

By any chance, you are using a "\s" as the delimiter since it will give the result you are presenting.

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dcrigger
6 - Meteoroid

Thank you for the responses,

 

When I used ":" as the delimiter the newly created cells had trailing and leading spaces. So I tried to use \s in the delimiter as well ":"

So i have trailing spaces or : in the cells.

Luke_C
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

@dcrigger 

 

I see, try it with the below configurations, that should resolve both issues:

 

lukecornetta_1-1615472133437.png

 

dcrigger
6 - Meteoroid

That did it thank you

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