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Specialist III
Specialist III

Extract String parts Via Regex

 I have the following data in one cell. (The length of the data varies not a fixed width format)

Measurement: Ring Head Width: 6.8 Ring Height: 5.5 Ring Shank Width: 1.1 Band Width: 2.5

I want to extract part of the above string.
Ring Head Width: 6.8


I am using the function "Extract string parts" with the following regex code to extract to the new column.
\bRing Head Width: (\d+(\.\d+)?)

I have also tried.
Ring Head Width: (\d+(\.\d+)?)

But when I Submit to execute it a new column gets created but it has no data matching the regex ?

What am I doing wrong. I tried to look for examples in help documentation but could not find any.
Any help is appreciated.
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Anonymous
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Hi,

This one should do the trick:

: ([a-zA-Z ]*: \d\.\d)


A quick explanation. What you want to capture is after the first occurence of ": " and is compound by the following elements, in that order:
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  • A mix of uppercase, lowercase and spaces.

  • A colon

  • A space

  • A digit

  • A dot

  • A digit

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    Regards,

    Gwendal