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Extract text which starts from specific characters in string

RamyaGunasekaran
7 - Meteor

Hello All,

 

I have a filed value like

 

\\xx.com\Z00001\google

\\xx.com\Z00002\google

 

I want output as 

Z00001

Z00002

 

Help please!

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DawnDuong
13 - Pulsar
13 - Pulsar

Hi @RamyaGunasekaran 

If the structure is always fixed, and you are less family with Regex, probably safer for you to use the standard Text to Column tool with \ as delimiter.

Dawn

 

RamyaGunasekaran
7 - Meteor

I want it in regex. Pls help on it @DawnDuong 

OllieClarke
15 - Aurora
15 - Aurora

Hey @RamyaGunasekaran 

 

If you want to get everything which starts with a Z and then is made of numbers then the following should get what you want:

(Z\d+)

With the RegEx tool in Parse mode

OllieClarke_0-1625139097235.png

If you also want to specify that they should fall between '\' then update the RegEx to

\\(Z\d+)\\

OllieClarke_1-1625139181899.png

Hope that helps,

 

Ollie

 

 

apathetichell
18 - Pollux

REGEX_Replace([Field1],"\\\\.*\\(.*)\\\w+","$1")

 

This should look for the last entry which has a word and a preceding "\" it then should grab the data between that backslash and penultimate slash.

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