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Parse Date and replace text

jenner85
8 - Asteroid

Hi - I am trying to get "Name" split to the date and then mapping the letter to Actual, Plan or Forecast. I tried a find replace, but it was cutting out the end of the field? Not sure how that is supposed to work. I was going to find the letter, replace with the Measure and then parse out into two columns for date and measure. Any help is appreciated. Thanks! 

 

 

NameDateMeasure
A Aug 2020Aug-20Actual
A Sep 2020Sep-20Actual
A Oct 2020Oct-20Actual
P Nov 2020Nov-20Plan
F Dec 2020Dec-20Forecast
P Jan 2021Jan-21Plan
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AshleyL
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)

Hi @jenner85 --

 

You can use the Regex Tool to parse out the first letter from the Month-Year! You can then use a Formula to update the A,P,F to be Actual,Plan & Forecast! I've attached an example workflow.

If you don't want to use a Regex, you can use Text to Column to parse out the data in the first column based on a space as the delimiter.

Does this help?

Ashley

 

Regex.PNG

T_Willins
14 - Magnetar
14 - Magnetar

Hi @jenner85,

 

You can create the columns in a single formula tool:

 

Parse Date.jpg

 

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