I dabble with regex so infrequently that I always forget what I've learned I'm afraid, but I'm hoping this post might help others too.
I've attached my workflow, which uses a Formula->Replace followed by Text to Cols methodology to parse some data from an html page. This uses a technique used here https://www.thedataschool.co.uk/robbin-vernooij/web-scraping-html-tables-an-alteryx-workflow-and-r-s...
The problem is that I'm replacing html strings with an unusual character (~) on which to split the string into rows, but if that character were to appear in the source data then I'd be in trouble. Also, regex ought to be much more concise and sophisticated. So if anyone can show me how to extract the information I need using regex (tokenize or parse perhaps?!?) I'd be very grateful.
Thanks
https://www.zolo.ca/toronto-real-estate/commercial/page-1
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Awesome. But please could you explain (.*?) vs .*?
What is a marked group? And in what circumstances would you use tokenize instead of parse? Thanks