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Split Column

Jaspal80
7 - Meteor

I have a column with the below data 

 

Column
1111(AO-D 20221021, AD 20221021, PD 20221021)

 

I want to split the data in to multiple column as shown below

 

NoAO-DADPD
1111202210212022102120221021

 

How can I do this?

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DataNath
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

@Jaspal80 are you able to provide a little more info here - is this a consistent pattern/format and you'll always be splitting the data into 4 columns with these names? If so you can use RegEx in Tokenize mode which will extract x occurrences of a pattern (in this case more than 1 number, 4 times, which looks to be what you want to pull out). We then just use a select to remove the original column and set the names:

 

DataNath_0-1666775393527.png

 

If there's variation and perhaps different names etc then we'll need more information and a wider range of examples. Hope this helps to get you started.

PhilipMannering
16 - Nebula
16 - Nebula

I'm not sure how dynamic you need it, but here's a solution using the Text To Columns Tool,

PhilipMannering_0-1666775647785.png

 

Jaspal80
7 - Meteor

Thank you so much. This works

Jaspal80
7 - Meteor

Thank you for your help with this.

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