topic Re: How to check for digits next to commas in strings in App Development

How to check for digits next to commas in strings

midnight1 — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 15:57:41 GMT

Hi Everyone 🙂
I'm kind of lost😅

So i have names of products in my table.
Let's say this is my table:

tab1:
LOAD * INLINE [
Name
'DEER WITH FUZZ, 235X60X265MM, WHITE COLOUR, 2 ASSORTED COLOURS, HANGTA',
'Glue, color.happy GOSPO',
'FIGURe LED 8,5CM AcRYL MIX WZ',
'animal SOLAR, MO',
'candle ceramic tree 6,',
'DOUCHET.3JETS+FLEX1,75M+BA,1P',
'DECOR ALU CLOTUREO 178x41,,1P',
'CAA AUTO REPARANTE 27,5'' SV,1P',
'PNEU 16X1,75 47/305 BMX,1P',
'Dog ceramic BIG',
'ribbon JUTY 6,3CM X 2,7M NAT',
'RIBBON 21CM 19,5G,'
];

I know names are strange but what I need is to find names with commas except those names where commas are surrounded with digits, for example 34,13.
i want to look for names where commas (if used) are not commas showing decimal places.
If there are a lot of commas and each of them has digits(so it's a number) it's okay
SO:

FIGURe LED 8,5CM AcRYL MIX WZ okay, one comma with digits on its left and right

ribbon JUTY 6,3CM X 2,7M NAT okay, since both commas has digits on its left and right

RIBBON 21CM 19,5G, not okay since there is a comma which purpose isn't to show decimal places --> not surrounded with digits

animal SOLAR, MO not okay, comma not surrounded with digits
Dog ceramic BIG okay, no commas

I tried something like this in chart:

=If(
SubstringCount(Text(Name), ',') = 0,
'No commas',
If(
SubstringCount(Text(Name), ',') = 1 and
IsNum(Mid(Text(Name), FindOneOf(Text(Name), ',') - 1, 1)) and
IsNum(Mid(Text(Name), FindOneOf(Text(Name), ',') + 1, 1)),
'Only one comma and it has digits',
'The rest'
)
)
BUT it only check for first comma,
i didn't know how to write it differently
i guess it can not be done in chart.
How to do this in load script?

i tried doing something with

SubStringCount(Name, ',')

and

if ((isNum(Mid(Name, (Index(Name, ',') - 1), 1))) =-1 and (isNum(Mid(Name, (Index(Name, ',') + 1), 1))) = -1 , 'okay', '-')

But i don't know how to do it. Do I have to use IterNo() or what?

Re: How to check for digits next to commas in strings

Braveen — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 16:54:20 GMT

Tab1:
LOAD *,
If(IsNull(WildMatch(Name, '*[0-9],[0-9]*')) OR
WildMatch(Name, '*,,*') OR
WildMatch(Name, '*, *') OR
WildMatch(Name, '*,') OR
WildMatch(Name, '*,[A-Za-z]*'), 'not okay', 'okay') AS Validation
INLINE [
Name
'DEER WITH FUZZ, 235X60X265MM, WHITE COLOUR, 2 ASSORTED COLOURS, HANGTA'
'Glue, color.happy GOSPO'
'FIGURe LED 8,5CM AcRYL MIX WZ'
'animal SOLAR, MO'
'candle ceramic tree 6,'
'DOUCHET.3JETS+FLEX1,75M+BA,1P'
'DECOR ALU CLOTUREO 178x41,,1P'
'CAA AUTO REPARANTE 27,5'' SV,1P'
'PNEU 16X1,75 47/305 BMX,1P'
'Dog ceramic BIG'
'ribbon JUTY 6,3CM X 2,7M NAT'
'RIBBON 21CM 19,5G,'
];

Re: How to check for digits next to commas in strings

morgankejerhag — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 17:41:28 GMT

You can use the new regex function for that!

Load
Name,
if(MatchRegEx(Name,'^(?:[^,]*\d+,\d+[^,]*)*$')>0,'OK','NOK') as NameCheck
INLINE [
Name
'DEER WITH FUZZ, 235X60X265MM, WHITE COLOUR, 2 ASSORTED COLOURS, HANGTA'
'Glue, color.happy GOSPO'
'FIGURe LED 8,5CM AcRYL MIX WZ'
'animal SOLAR, MO'
'candle ceramic tree 6,'
'DOUCHET.3JETS+FLEX1,75M+BA,1P'
'DECOR ALU CLOTUREO 178x41,,1P'
'CAA AUTO REPARANTE 27,5'' SV,1P'
'PNEU 16X1,75 47/305 BMX,1P'
'Dog ceramic BIG'
'ribbon JUTY 6,3CM X 2,7M NAT'
'RIBBON 21CM 19,5G,'
];