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Remove Duplicates in a single cell

siddharthpotlia
5 - Atom

Hi, I have data in the below format (In a single cell) Deutsche Boerse AG (DB); Deutsche Boerse AG (DB); Bolsa Mexicana de Valores (BMV); London Stock Exchange (LSE); Pink Sheets LLC (OTCPK); Pink Sheets LLC (OTCPK) I want to remove all duplicates in here Ideally the result shall look like: Deutsche Boerse AG (DB); Bolsa Mexicana de Valores (BMV); London Stock Exchange (LSE); Pink Sheets LLC (OTCPK) How do I do this in Alteryx, I know Regex is one way but I am not able to figure out the correct code for it. I found the a code shared in the community for this regex_replace([field],"\b(\w+),(?=.*\b\1,?)",""), but this is not working for me (Most likely the code has to be customized in line with the data but I do not know much about stack overflow at the moment, can anyone please help out in this. Thanks in advance.

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atcodedog05
22 - Nova
22 - Nova

Hi @siddharthpotlia 

 

Both my methods should work one where i am splitting & joining using recordID and another using regex.

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You can check & let me know.

 

EDIT : @vlad_kutateladze this why i used i had used recordID tool 🙂 so that rows can split & join back to the same row.

 

vlad_kutateladze
9 - Comet

@atcodedog05  Yes, for multiple rows Record ID tool is necessary 👍

 
mceleavey
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

@vlad_kutateladze not exactly 🙂

 

You are provided with a Company ID, so this would be the record identifier. 

No Record ID needed.

 

M.



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