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Filter on Records that have line breaks?

AConcernedAnalyst
7 - Meteor

Hi all,

 

Wondering if anyone knew of a way to filter records with line breaks (if this is even possible)? I've tried the filters below but none work. Some records contain line breaks and some don't and I need to filter the records that do have line breaks so it can be processed a certain way. 

 

- Contains([COLUMN_NAME], \n)

- Contains([COLUMN_NAME], '\n')

 

Thank you

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DataNath
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

May be \r\n rather than just \n? Can’t remember off the top of my head and not on my laptop sorry!

AConcernedAnalyst
7 - Meteor

@DataNath 

 

I tried 

 

- Contains([COLUMN], '\r\n')

- Contains([COLUMN], \r\n)

 

but neither worked. But based off your response, sounds like it is possible, which is good!

DataNath
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

Hopped into Alteryx and it turns out you can actually just hit enter within your RegEx match and that does the trick! Workbook attached.

 

Pattern is literally: ".+<ENTER>.+"

 

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Qiu
21 - Polaris
21 - Polaris

@AConcernedAnalyst 
Based on my test, the following RegEx works also.

REGEX_Match([Field1], '.+\n.+')

We can try a non RegEx approach also.

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