topic Re: Count leading spaces in a string in QlikView

Count leading spaces in a string

bfournet — Wed, 03 Sep 2014 10:00:51 GMT

Hello! Sorry in advance for my english.

Here is my question: I would like to import data from an Excel file containing one column ("Siege") with leading spaces records.

But while loading data into qlikview, leading spaces are automatically suppressed even using Text() function:

...

Text(Siege) as Siege,

...

The workaround I found is to modify the "Verbatim" variable before loading data and it works fine :

Set Verbatim = 0;

To count spaces of each record, i created a new column using :

substringcount(Siege,' ') as Hierarchie,

I can retrieve the correct number of leading spaces for the first three records. It doesn't work for the last one because i don't want to count space between 'S4' and 'London' but only before 'S4'.

So how can I only count leading spaces in a string ??

Thank You for your help

Re: Count leading spaces in a string

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Sep 2014 10:15:27 GMT

( len(Siege) - (len( ltrim(Siege))))

Re: Count leading spaces in a string

bfournet — Thu, 04 Sep 2014 15:38:00 GMT

Hello, it works fine and the solution more simple than I expected

Thank you !

Re: Count leading spaces in a string

MarcoWedel — Thu, 04 Sep 2014 16:08:42 GMT

Hi,

maybe this thread is also of interest for you:

loading data

hope this helps

regards

Marco