Mulitple Columns Text to Rows?

[himaniyadav]

Hi - I have a dataset that looks like something like this, where each column has delimited values:

criterion one	criterion two	code
1,2,3,2	2,3,4,1	ABC,REC,TVD,INJ

and I want it to be split up to look like this but can't figure out how to use the text to column tool correctly:

criterion one	criterion two	code
1	2	ABC
2	3	REC
3	4	TVD
2	1	INJ

I found a way that sort of works by using text to columns instead of text to rows but it involves knowing exactly how many values there are to split up which will not always be the case, since this is dynamic workflow that will be reading and joining files from a directory. I attached an example worrflow of the kind of dataset I want to split into rows. Please help me! Thank you in advance.

[LordNeilLord · Accepted solution]

Hey @himaniyadav 

Not so straight forward, but it needs a bit of transpose, then text to columns, throw in a bit of multirow then crosstab!!

I've attached an example

[himaniyadav]

Thank you so much for the solution so quickly! I'm new to Alteryx and spent so long trying to work it out myself, haha.

[kimikoxavier]

Could someone please explain what [Row-1:NewField]+1 in the above Alteryx solution means? Thank you in advance. 

[Dvorask]

It's been some time but chiming in here if someone reaches here through Google. [Row-1:NewField]+1 numbers the rows from 1 onwards*, and we'll use Multi-Row Formula's Group By function to loop back to 1 every time we're dealing with a new column header (every time the Name column changes).

*You could do the same thing using Record ID or Generate Rows if you only wanted to number the rows, but in this context, we have the added requirement of having to transform the data downstream. There should be a way to use Record ID or Generate Rows for this but Multi-Row Formula would be the most concise.