Removing Duplicate Numeric Values after Sum Concatenate

[lomeoari]

Hi all,

I need to remove duplicate values in the same cell. Data was already concatenated and is now separate by commas. 

This is what is currently looks like. 

ID	Description	Price	comments	LY Prices
0	red	1.08,2,1,1,5,3,2,4		1.08,2,1,1,5,3,2,4
1	blue	1,7,3,1,55,3		1,7,3,1,55,3
2	orange	8,2,2,3,4,5,5		8,2,2,3,4,5,5
3	yellow	9,9,9,8,1		9,9,9,8,1
4	green	1		1
5	purple	2,2,3,		2,2,3,

Below is what I need it to look like, same format just duplicate numbers in the same cell removed.  My data set is large and has many columns. I only need to remove duplicates from the price columns so I used a dynamic select to select columns that only have price in the name. Then was going to use multi field formula to try to use regex replace to remove duplicates, but am getting and error saying trying to apply string operator to numeric value. I true changing the data types to string but still no luck. Any ideas? Appreciate the communities help!

ID	Description	Price	comments	LYPrice
0	red	1.08,2,3,4,5		1.08,2,3,4,5
1	blue	1,3,55,7		1,3,55,7
2	orange	2,3,4,5,8		2,3,4,5,8
3	yellow	9,8,1		9,8,1
4	green	1		1
5	purple	2,3		2,3

[Qiu]

@lomeoari 
Hope this will work for you.

[apathetichell]

In your sample output red 1 wasn't included. Is there a reason?

[lomeoari]

I got the regex replace to work but the formula is off. I am using the below formula and the price column is the current input, however, the below regex formula is giving me the below output and not the desired output. Any idea how to amend the formula? Regex is not my strong suit, the formulas confuse me. 

TRIM(REGEX_Replace([_CurrentField_], '\b(.+),(?=.*\b\1,?)', ''))

ID	Description	Price	OUTPUT	Desired Output
0	red	0,0,67,67,0	067	0,67
1	blue	-30,-30	--30	-30

[danilang]

Hi @lomeoari 

In your case, you should look how the duplicates were created in the first place.  Is this the way you receive the data or are the concatenated strings produced earlier on in the workflow.  If this is how you receive the data, then the other solutions will help.  If your workflow creates the concatenated strings, through a summarize or crosstab, then consider removing the duplicate rows before the concatenation.  You can use the Unique tool to remove duplicates using Description and Price or LY Price as the keys

Dan