topic Re: Need a solution for REPLACE in QlikView

Need a solution for REPLACE

Wed, 25 Jun 2014 16:04:10 GMT

So the data I was given has some spelling errors, so as a temporary fix I need to group the errors together until the system that holds the data is fixed.

Replace work for most of it until I came to abbreviations.

So the script is:

Replace(Replace(Replace(AccountGroup, 'Admininstration', 'Administration'),'Maint', 'Maintenance'), 'Mangemnt', 'Management')

AS AccountGroup,

However I get a group called 'Maitenance', and a group called 'Maintenanceenance' since it is replacing the "Maint" of the correctly spelled group as well.

Is there an easy solution to fix this or another way of going about it?

Thanks,

Re: Need a solution for REPLACE

Clever_Anjos — Wed, 25 Jun 2014 16:14:11 GMT

FixTable:

mapping LOAD * INLINE [
    F1,F2
    Admininstration, Administration
    Mangemnt, Management
    Maint, Maintenance
];

Load
ApplyMap('FixTable',AccountGroup,AccountGroup) as AccountGroup
from yourqvd(qvd);

Re: Need a solution for REPLACE

Thu, 26 Jun 2014 16:30:29 GMT

For anyone else who needs to use the answer above, to make it work you need to add the F2 column header to the table.

Thanks Anjos.

Re: Need a solution for REPLACE

Clever_Anjos — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 17:38:28 GMT

Thank you for correcting me.

I´ve coded right into the answer box.

I should have used QV to code and test.