Text to column with Fixed width

Hi,

I am trying to perform a simple text to column operation but using fixed width instead of delimiters. My column is in the format DDMMMYYYY (e.g. 23JUL1907) and I am trying to extract the year.

My understanding is that I should actually be using the regex tool, but I am struggling to understand its syntax.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks,

Val

Parse

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haroon_sa

Hi @Valentin_NY

use this expression in Reg ex tool

(\d{4})

Thanks,

Haroon

BenMoss

An alternative would be to simply use the formula tool.

Right(field,4)

Or right(tosfrong(field,4))

If you wish too pull out the day and month too then you can use regex in parse mode where you use brackets to pull out the different variables.

(\d\d)([[ALPHA]][[ALPHA]][[ALPHA]])(\d\d\d\d)

(I wrote that blind so it may be slightly off)

Ben

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haroon_sa

Hi @Valentin_NY

use this expression in Reg ex tool

(\d{4})

Thanks,

Haroon

BenMoss

Valentin_NY

Great, thanks!

alisagoodeair

I'm trying to do the same thing, but i don't want to leave off any part of the field. So, for example, if one of mine is 20180109, I need to have a separate column for year, month and day.

I've been trying the RegEx tool with parse but I don't know how to construct the expression - and I have looked at multiple other places in the community and if it is answered somewhere I don't see it.

This is what I have, but when I run it, my Month Day and Year fields are Null.

Any thoughts as to how I should proceed?

Thanks!

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