We are celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the Alteryx Community! Learn more and join in on the fun here.
Start Free Trial

Alteryx Designer Desktop Discussions

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

How to extract word in between specific words

RamyaGunasekaran
7 - Meteor

Example I have,

 

\\abcd123\aa\bb\cc\zip\folder1

\\abcd321\dd\zip\foldername1\gg

\\abdc213\aa\bb\cc\dd\zip\folder3\ee\ff

 

I want folder names as output like

folder1

foldername1

folder3

 

Help on this!!

10 REPLIES 10
Jean-Balteryx
16 - Nebula
16 - Nebula

Hi @RamyaGunasekaran ,

 

I guess your folders doesn't always contain the word "folder" ?

RamyaGunasekaran
7 - Meteor

No it can be different name but following by zip folder

Jean-Balteryx
16 - Nebula
16 - Nebula

There is always "zip" before ?

atcodedog05
22 - Nova
22 - Nova

Hi @RamyaGunasekaran 

 

You can use regex like below. Filename after zip\

 

zip\\(\w+)\\?

 

 

Workflow:

atcodedog05_0-1626957127718.png

 

Hope this helps : )

 

Jean-Balteryx
16 - Nebula
16 - Nebula

@RamyaGunasekaran here is a workflow with a regex extracting the folder name !

Jean-Balteryx
16 - Nebula
16 - Nebula

@atcodedog05 got it before me !

RamyaGunasekaran
7 - Meteor

Above solution is working fine. But I got another case like below. Not only following by zip folder also by Bias folder

 

\\abcd123\aa\bb\cc\zip\folder1

\\abcd321\dd\zip\foldername1\gg

\\abdc213\aa\bb\cc\dd\Bias\folder3\ee\ff

\\abcd321\dd\Bias\folderNam6\hh

 

Expected Output:

folder1

foldername1

folder3

folderNam6

 

Help on this..

 

 

atcodedog05
22 - Nova
22 - Nova

Hi @RamyaGunasekaran 

 

You can use regex like below.

 

 

(:?zip|Bias)\\(\w+)\\?

 

 

Workflow:

atcodedog05_0-1627301876794.png

Hope this helps : )

RamyaGunasekaran
7 - Meteor

In case if I have space in folder name, am not getting the complete name  of the folder like below

 

\\abcd123\aa\bb\cc\zip\folder1 subname\folder2

\\abcd321\dd\zip\foldername1_tt\gg

 

Expected Output:

folder1 subname

foldername1_tt

 

The ouput which am getting is

folder1

foldername1_tt

Labels
Top Solution Authors