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Extract the last symbols from a string

Rurikovich
5 - Atom

Hi all,

Recently I worked with Alteryx and the following question appeared:

How to extract the last symbols after the combination of “,” (coma and space)?

For instance, I have such rows:

 

1234 Metal, Wood, Containers, units
435792 Red bricks, t
38 Fresh Juice, aka Maracana, l

 

And I want to get the following column;

 

units
t
l

 

As you may have noticed, there are several combinations of “, “ in a string. However, their number may vary from 1 (the exact one before the units) to 4-5. So just splitting the text to columns using ", " does not help to create a column with a necesary data.
Could you please advise me, how it can be done?

 

Thanks

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papalow
8 - Asteroid

@jdunkerley79 

I am curious which solution would be your first choice?

jdunkerley79
ACE Emeritus
ACE Emeritus
Regex replace - but then I love Regular Expressions (my team hates me for them). 
 
I expect performance of reverse find might be faster but generally wouldn’t be stressing over that level of optimisation and if I was would want to implement a true FindLast implementation. 

 

 
James
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