Free Trial

Alteryx Designer Desktop Discussions

Find answers, ask questions, and share expertise about Alteryx Designer Desktop and Intelligence Suite.
SOLVED

Formula for numbers and string mixture

calvincarr29
8 - Asteroid

I need a formula for:

 

Column Name: Account Number

 

If Account Number contains a letter then it's a string otherwise it's a number

 

 

7 REPLIES 7
binuacs
21 - Polaris
calvincarr29
8 - Asteroid

@binuacs Coming through with the solution again. Thank you. But I need more of a conversion. 

 

I'm spitting this workflow into an excel template with formulas. However, the excel formulas aren't working because it's reading Account Numbers as a text rather than numbers. I want to eliminate having to manually convert them in excel.

 

 
 

aa.PNG

 

binuacs
21 - Polaris

@calvincarr29 The account number field contains both numeric and string, therefore the entire field will be considered as string data type. 

calvincarr29
8 - Asteroid

IIF([Account Number], [Account Number],IsString([Account Number])) is producing

bb.PNG

 

It gets rid of the one with letters which I don't want

 

 

binuacs
21 - Polaris

@calvincarr29 in that case use the below formula m nake sure the output is selected as double data type

image.png

calvincarr29
8 - Asteroid

Is there a way to keep the numbers with the letters as well? 

 

If Account Number contains letters leave it alone otherwise convert to number.

binuacs
21 - Polaris

@calvincarr29 That is not possible in Alteryx, a single field can't have two data types, If any of the values contains letters it will be considered as string type

 

Labels
Top Solution Authors