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Separating text from the column of texts

sriniprad08
11 - Bolide

Hi Team,

Hope you are well.

I need help. I have to separate the Active hosts and scan assets from the below the column into a new column.

Please let me know how to go about it,

 

Thanks,

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AlexEntz
8 - Asteroid

Hello,

 

the Text to Column tool is perfect for this. Here my Solution:

 

AlexEntz_0-1635844015821.png

 

This is the endresult:

AlexEntz_1-1635844042158.png

 

Example is attached. Hope this helps!

 

Greetings Alex

 

sriniprad08
11 - Bolide

Hi @AlexEntz ,

Perfect. Thank you very much.

 

Cheers

Sri

sriniprad08
11 - Bolide

Hi @AlexEntz ,

 

Thank you for helping out. I found that there are couple of texts which has "-" in the begining . Is it possible to remove only the last one?

 

get Lk sdf-Ksdfffffsfs-Mais EXT - Netblocks Assigned
get Lk sdf-Ksdfffffsfs-Vordef EXT - Netblocks Assigned

 

Thanks

AlexEntz
8 - Asteroid

Hi @sriniprad08,

 

this is a more complicated matter then. For this we have to use regular expressions. I'm not very familiar with them, but I think I cooked something up that works. Here is the flow:

 

AlexEntz_0-1635855479063.png

 Here the result:

AlexEntz_1-1635855506932.png

I added row 3 to show you, that the last one is always taken (doesn't matter how many delimeters there are). I attached the Workflow as well.

 

Greetings Alex

sriniprad08
11 - Bolide

Hi @AlexEntz ,

Perfect. Thank you so much. Really appreciate your time 🙂

 

Cheers,

Sri

sriniprad08
11 - Bolide

Hi @AlexEntz ,

Thanks for the help. Is it possible to retain only the parts before - Network Assigned.  Actually i need to remove the "-Network Assigned".

 

Cheers,

Sri

sriniprad08
11 - Bolide

For eg. As per below in the separate column.

get Lk sdf-Ksdfffffsfs-Mais EXT 
get Lk sdf-Ksdfffffsfs-Vordef EXT 

sriniprad08
11 - Bolide

Hi @AlexEntz ,

Thanks for the help. Is it possible to retain only the parts before - Network Assigned.  Actually i need to remove the "-Network Assigned".

 

Cheers,

Sri

AlexEntz
8 - Asteroid

Hi @sriniprad08,

 

for that, you will have to change the regular expression to this: (.*-)+

 

This is the result:

AlexEntz_0-1635920814641.png

If you the want to remove the last "-" use a formula tool with this expression: TrimRight([RegExOut1],"-")

 

I hope this answers your question :)!

 

Greetings Alex

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