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Text to Column - How to separate empty spaces?

Joker_Hazard
11 - Bolide

Morning everyone.

I am trying to separate empty spaces in a column, using Text to Columns tool with /s as delimiter. However nothing happens and I have no clue why is that.

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The data is like that. Anyone can help me out in this endeavor?

I want an output like this:

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Thanks

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DataNath
17 - Castor

You’re using /s (forward slash). It should be \s (backslash)! 

grazitti_sapna
17 - Castor

@Joker_Hazard , another way to achieve that is to press space in the delimiter section. But \s or space will only work if your field is string datatype.

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Thanks!

 

Sapna Gupta
grazitti_sapna
17 - Castor

@Joker_Hazard , the below method works for DateTime datatype as well. You can use the formula tool and use functions left and right to get the desired result.

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I hope this helps!

 

Thanks!

 

Sapna Gupta
Joker_Hazard
11 - Bolide

My gosh. I see I need more coffee and some rest. Thank you very much both of you!!

grazitti_sapna
17 - Castor

@Joker_Hazard, I am glad we could be helpful 🙂

 

Thanks!

Sapna Gupta
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