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Replace or contains formula help

pdealwis
5 - Atom

Hi 

 

I am hoping someone can help me with a find and replace formula.

 

Below is a column from a flow I am building. I need to replace "|" with the data from the line above.

For example lines 6 and 7 would be replaced by the data in line 5 or lines 9 and 10 would be replaced by data in line 8

 

I have tried to use this formula, but it gives me a PARSE error.

IF contains([|]. "|") THEN [Row-1:|] ELSE [|] ENDIF

 

Any help would be appreciated

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mceleavey
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

Hi @pdealwis ,

 

this is a simple multi-row formula. You can use the following logic:

 

if [Text]="|" then [Row-1:Text] else [Text] endif

 

This allows you to replace an existing single pipe with whatever was not a pipe on the row above, each row updating itself sequentially:

 

mceleavey_0-1677000571744.png

 

Workflow attached.

I hope this helps,

 

M.



Bulien

pdealwis
5 - Atom

This worked. Thanks for your help 

mceleavey
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

@pdealwis 

 

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Can you mark it as a solution? It helps the search in future.

 

M.



Bulien

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