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Insert an * as text

Number4
8 - Asteroid

I'm hoping this is easy.
I need to create a text delimited file that uses an asterisk as the delimiter.

 

To start, I unioned two files with the column name file being input 1.

I need to populate the delimiter column with the Asterisk but it keeps turning the " * " into a zero.

 

 

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Luke_C
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

Hi @Number4 

 

This should be as simple as getting your data how you want it, and then using an output tool to create a csv file specifying * as the delimiter. I did a quick test and it seems to be working.

 

How are you currently populating the delimiter?

 

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Number4
8 - Asteroid

I had created multiple delimiter columns (adding 1, 2, 3 etc. to the name.)

I'll remove them and just use the option you'd shown.

I knew there had to be something simple I was overlooking.

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