Regex help to remove duplicate strings in the same cell

I've looked through various posts throughout the community and have found some similar problems/solutions, but not have been able to resolve what I'm looking for. I'm also not proficient enough with Regex to modify the solutions in some of the other posts.

I have a cell with an unknown number of strings separate by commas in a cell. Many of those strings are duplicates

Data looks like this

Name	Titles Held
John	HRBP, HRBP, HRBP, Sr HRBP, SVP HR, SVP HR
Dave	Sales, Sr. Sales, Sr. Sales, Director Sales

I'm trying to to get it to look like this

Name	Titles Held
John	HRBP, Sr HRBP, SVP HR
Dave	Sales, Sr. Sales, Director Sales

I really don't want to do the text to rows method because I have to do this to a number of columns.

Thanks for any Help!

Craig

Accepted answers

TerryT

Hi Craig,

That was a tough one!!!

This seems to work: REGEX_Replace([Titles Held], '(\b[^,]+)(?=.*, *\1(?:,|$)), *', '')

Good luck!

Terry T

regex-to-remove-duplicates-in-the-same-cell-csh8428.yxmd

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jdelaguila

I had the same issue when i concatenated a field. I just ended up using a Find and Replace Tool. There's probably a better way of doing it, but thought i should share what i ended up doing.

Javier Delaguila

TerryT

Hi Craig,

That was a tough one!!!

This seems to work: REGEX_Replace([Titles Held], '(\b[^,]+)(?=.*, *\1(?:,|$)), *', '')

Good luck!

Terry T

regex-to-remove-duplicates-in-the-same-cell-csh8428.yxmd

csh8428

Works great. Thanks!

Fredy_Katpitia

Hello,

Even i am new to Alteryx & Regex but i tried 2nd step but didnt work for me as i have amultiple fields with below data type.

I am trying the RegexReplace formula but dont seem to get it to work..can you help me please?

Below is what my string contains

([NAME_LEVEL10]='ABC123' or [NAME_LEVEL10]='ABC123' or [NAME_LEVEL10]='ABC123' or [NAME_LEVEL10]='ABC123' or [NAME_LEVEL10]='ABC123' or [NAME_LEVEL10]='ABC123' or [NAME_LEVEL10]='ABC123' OR [NAME_LEVEL11]='ABC123' OR [NAME_LEVEL11]='ABC123')

what i am looking for is
([NAME_LEVEL10]='ABC123' OR [NAME_LEVEL11]='ABC123')

Thanks & Regards

Fredy

Spainey

Amazing! Exactly what I need for a hassle free way to remove duplicates from a string list.

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