In case you missed the announcement: The Alteryx One Fall Release is here! Learn more about the new features and capabilities here
ACT NOW: The Alteryx team will be retiring support for Community account recovery and Community email-change requests after December 31, 2025. Set up your security questions now so you can recover your account anytime, just log out and back in to get started. Learn more here
Start Free Trial

Alteryx Designer Desktop Discussions

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

Help to split tricky lines into multiple rows (uncatenate on multiple columns)

Verakso
11 - Bolide

Hi Community,


Normally I have no problem fixing data in Alteryx, but today I got some data, that I kind quite can't figure out how to solve

 

The data looks something like this:

before.png


Apparently some data has been concatenated, but not all of them,

 

I´ve tried the Text to Columns tool. but that only takes one column at the time :(

 

The "logic" is, that the concatenated fields all have the same position on the row, so the final result would be something like this

 

after.png


Feel a bit like I have made a challenge without knowing the answer.

The tricky part is there, that can be potentially many concatenated fields, and many columns in a mix of concatenated data and not (unique)
But the rule is always, that there is the same amount of concatenations on each row.

Right now I am stuck at this, which besides it doesn't work isn't very dynamic either

 

/V

2 REPLIES 2
Christina_H
14 - Magnetar

Try transposing the data before splitting:

image.png

Verakso
11 - Bolide

After I made the post, I did go down that path as well, but not with the greatest success

 

wrong_solution.png

 

So brilliant use of the Tile tool, thanks 🙌

/V

Labels
Top Solution Authors