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All the data is inside a single cell, need help cleaning

backrocket
7 - Meteor

I have data coming from a system and it is outputting all the data inside a single cell. The data is not consistent, such that it is not coming as the output in the same format. I have attached a example below.


My goal is to separate the data and then convert it into columns. I have also attached the desired output in the below excel sheet. The number of fields that may show up vary from between the cells.

 

The steps I tried was to create a Batch macro, which takes in one cell at a time, delimits it based on , which is ignored in quotes. This helped to separate the fields out in to columns but I could not figure out how to go from 'upc': '015532100821' to a column names upc and value of it as 015532100821.

 

Any help on this would be really appreciated.

 

Thank you,

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joshuaburkhow
ACE Emeritus
ACE Emeritus

This isn't a complete solution but I wanted to get you a start so you can see how you can get there. You'll need to do a bit of work to get just perfect. The big piece is to add the formula tool first to clean it up a bit so it's easier to parse...

 

Hope this helps! 

Joshua Burkhow - Alteryx Ace | Global Alteryx Architect @PwC | Blogger @ AlterTricks
backrocket
7 - Meteor

Thank you for that, this really helps. 

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