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separate columns and concatenate to old columns in table

Saraabdi955
8 - Asteroid

Hi all,

I need your help.

I have a table like T1:

 

 I want to separate column named "B1:B2" using regex to two different columns and concatenate new column "B1" to column "C1" and new column "B2" to column "C2" like this:

 

Thanks for helping me,

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AngelosPachis
16 - Nebula

Hi @Saraabdi955 

 

So depending on your actual input, I have prepared two workflows that can help out.

 

Assuming that your input is this

 

AngelosPachis_0-1617524651255.png

 

then you can use a text to columns tools instead of a regex to split to new columns every time you meet the delimiter ":"

 

AngelosPachis_1-1617524719476.png

 

Then if your input actually have nulls stored as text, as shown below

 

AngelosPachis_2-1617524744876.png

 

then you should first replace those with empty cells (I did that with a multi-field formula) and then apply the same steps as in the previous workflow

AngelosPachis_3-1617524795389.png

 

Hope that helps.

 

Regards,

 

Angelos

 

Saraabdi955
8 - Asteroid

Hi @AngelosPachis 

That's right.

 

Thanks a lot Angelos.

Best Regards,

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