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Regex - how to remove char with a specific location

Hamder83
11 - Bolide

Hi 

I have a csv file with a different amount of delimiters. It goes from 29-31.

For those lines that has 30 or 31 I wanna remove ; number 25 and/or 26.

I have this string:
Β;1474552;000004464165926;30/01/2022;ΘΖ;Κεντρ.Διακ.Θε ;ΑΘ;ΑΘΗΝΑ ;ΔΙΚΤΥΟ ΧΕΡΣΑΙΟ ;UBSEND GMBH ;ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΑ ΒΛΑΧΑΚΗ 3ΟΣ ΟΡΟΦΟΣ ;001;00002,0;00000,00;ΑΜ; ; ; ;00002,97;00000,00;00000,00;00000,00;00002,97;31/01/2022;02/02/2022;...

And I use this formula to count how many ; there is:
REGEX_CountMatches([ΣΕΙΡΑ;ΝΟ ΤΙΜΟΛ;ΝΟ ΑΠΟΔ;ΗΜΕΡ.ΠΑΡΑΛ.;ΑΠΟ;ΠΕΡΙΓΡ;ΠΡΟΣ;ΠΕΡΙΓΡ;;ΑΠΟΣΤΟΛΕΑΣ;ΠΑΡΑΛΗΠΤΗΣ;ΤΕΜ;ΒΑΡΟΣ;ΑΞΙΑ ΜΕΤΑΦ.;ΑΛΛΕΣ ΥΠΗΡΕΣΙΕΣ;;;;ΑΞΙΑ ΑΛΛΩΝ ΥΠΗΡΕΣΙΩΝ;;;;ΣΥΝΟΛ.ΑΞΙΑ;ΗΜΕΡ.ΤΙΜΟΛ;ΗΜΕΡ.ΠΑΡΑΔ;ΠΑΡΑΛΑΒΩΝ;ΑΙΤΙΑ ΜΗ ΠΑΡΑΔ;Κ.ΚΟΣΤΟΥΣ;;ΑΝΑΓΝΩΡΙΣΤΙΚΟ;],';')


How do I replace a specific number of delimiter?


Kind regards

 

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AngelosPachis
16 - Nebula

Hi @Hamder83 ,

 

Probably there's a Regex way to do that, but I gave another method a try. So breaking it down to multiple tools, you can count how many columns/delimiters you have in each row (multi-row formula), find the max count for each row and only keep those that have 30-31. Then you can filter out 25/26 and concatenate everything back together.

 

AngelosPachis_0-1645435172830.png

 

Numbers in my workflow are slightly different as there were only 26 delimiters in the provided string. Also regarding the regex formula you used to count the ; is this your first row of data containing the concatenated column headers?

 

(Since this is greek), ευχαριστώ,

 

Άγγελος

AngelosPachis
16 - Nebula

@Hamder83any updates on this?

atcodedog05
22 - Nova
22 - Nova

Wow thats some amazing set of characters 🙂 @Hamder83 

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