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Finding special character(s) in entire row

alteryxokan
7 - Meteor

Hello, 

 

I have a 2 datasets that I can connect with an ID. 1 data set had a conversion error and some characters are replaced by (?). I also have a clean dataset and I'm looking to see which records got (?). 

Example of data set 1

Client IDFirst nameLast nameAddress
1JohnD?eblue ave
2J?hnDoered ave
3JohnDoeGreen ave

 

I want to add additional column and see if this client ID had any question mark in any field or not. My expected result will be

Client IDFirst nameLast nameAddressDid first dataset have (?)
1JohnDoeblue aveyes
2JohnDoered aveyes
3JohnDoeGreen aveno

 

Apologies if I could not word it properly. I tried to find a solution but I'm not sure how to explain either. 

 

Thank you!

2 REPLIES 2
binuacs
20 - Arcturus

@alteryxokan one approach with batch macro

 

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apathetichell
19 - Altair

My hunch is that you may want to look at the intermediate step (flagging the specifc records/rows with the ?s dynamically) -if so take a look at this non-macro version...

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