Separating area code from phone number into new field

[drminaker]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to clean phone numbers by doing two things:

• Removing anything that's not a number from the Phone number column - no problem I used this code:

           purgechar([Phone number], ')(-') as [Phone number]

• Problem is, when the area code is in the Phone number column (like row 2), I want to remove it and add it to the Area code column (or into any other new field). This is where I'm stuck, I've tried various iterations of if(len, substring, purgechar and just can't get this to work.

Any help appreciated, as always. Thanks!

R.

	Area code	Phone number
1	416	1234567
2		4161234567
3		(416)1234567

[its_anandrjs]

Which is your actual data row.

[its_anandrjs]

In row no 2 how you differentiate 416 is the code and 1234567 is the phone number.

[sunny_talwar]

May be like this

If(Len(Purgechar([Phone number], ')(-')) = 10, Right(Purgechar([Phone number], ')(-'), 7), Purgechar([Phone number], ')(-')) as [Phone number]

[sunny_talwar]

And this for Area Code...

If(Len(Trim([Area Code])) > 0, [Area Code], If(Len(Purgechar([Phone number], ')(-')) = 10, Left(Purgechar([Phone number], ')(-'), 3))) as [Area Code]

[sunny_talwar · Accepted solution]

Sample script

Table:

LOAD Sno,

If(Len(Purgechar([Phone number], ')(-')) = 10, Right(Purgechar([Phone number], ')(-'), 7), Purgechar([Phone number], ')(-')) as [Phone number],

If(Len(Trim([Area code])) > 0, [Area code], If(Len(Purgechar([Phone number], ')(-')) = 10, Left(Purgechar([Phone number], ')(-'), 3))) as [Area code];

LOAD * INLINE [

    Sno, Area code, Phone number

    1, 416, 1234567

    2, , 4161234567

    3, , (416)1234567

];

[its_anandrjs]

Some of the questions

1. What is the length of the Phone no. are they fix.

2. Open brackets close and open are in fix place

LOAD *,

PurgeChar( SubField([Phone number],')',1),'(') as [Area Code],

SubField([Phone number],')',-1) as [New Phone];

LOAD * Inline

[

Area code, Phone number

1 ,  416 1234567

2 ,  4161234567

3 , (416)1234567

];

[its_anandrjs]

If they are in fix Area Code = 3 and Number = 7

Then

Data:

LOAD *,

PurgeChar( SubField([Phone number],')',1),'(') as [Area Code],

SubField([Phone number],')',-1) as [New Phone];

LOAD * Inline

[

Area code, Phone number

1 ,  416 1234567

2 , 4161234567

3 , (416)1234567

];

NoConcatenate

Final:

LOAD

If(len([Area Code]) = 3, [Area Code]) as [Area Code],

if(len([New Phone]) = 7,[New Phone]) as [New Phone]

Resident Data;

DROP Table Data;

[drminaker]

Apologies for the extreme delay on replying to this, but this code works perfect. Thanks so much!

R.