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HWallays
Contributor III
Contributor III

Excell with some columns to deconcatenate (variable length sperated by a point) and others not

I need to import a large excell file where one column holds a concatenated field ( 12 different fields) which are seperated by a point '.', the other excell columns are fine... 

Here is some example of that concatenate fields 

AC.1.TR.AUD.1000.5100.1341..........CREDIT
AC.1.TR.AUD.1000.5100.1411..........CREDIT
MG.1.TR.BGN.25015.5100.2601.T....56.....51010
MG.1.TR.BGN.25015.5100.2601.T....56.....LIVEDB
MG.1.TR.BGN.25015.5100.2611.20121118....59....51010
MG.1.TR.BGN.25015.5100.2611.20140422....59....51010

 

Is there anyway I can import this in an elegant way without having to work with if constructions and mid/lef/right ... 

The problem is that they have not made each of the sub fields equally long  

Just as an example in the first 2 rows the field 5th field is only 4 signs long , in the others 5

 

Thanks for your (appreciated) help 

3 Replies
jyothish8807
Master II
Master II

Hi Hwallays,

Try loading the column by setting '.' as delimiter.

https://help.qlik.com/en-US/qlikview/November2018/Subsystems/Client/Content/QV_QlikView/Scripting/Sc...

LOAD 

[YourField]

 from a.txt (utf8, txt, delimiter is '.' , embedded labels);

//This will split the fields into multiple fileds as per the delimiter, you can do it from the load transformation section as well.

 

Best Regards,
KC
marcus_sommer

You could use subfield() for it, for example:

 

...

subfield(YourField, '.', 1) as YourField1,

subfield(YourField, '.', 2) as YourField2

...

 

- Marcus

 

HWallays
Contributor III
Contributor III
Author

Hai Marcus , that did works really well ...so many thanks on this one ! 

Here 's a view on the result 

AC.1.TR.AUD.1000.5100.1211..........CREDITAC1TRAUD100051001211     
AC.1.TR.AUD.1000.5100.1231..........CREDITAC1TRAUD100051001231     
AC.1.TR.AUD.1000.5100.1341..........CREDITAC1TRAUD100051001341     
AC.1.TR.AUD.1000.5100.1411..........CREDITAC1TRAUD100051001411     
AC.1.TR.AUD.1000.5100.1412..........CREDITAC1TRAUD100051001412     
MG.1.TR.BGN.25015.5100.2601.T....51.....51010MG1TRBGN2501551002601T   51
MG.1.TR.BGN.25015.5100.2601.T....51.....LIVEDBMG1TRBGN2501551002601T   51
MG.1.TR.BGN.25015.5100.2601.T....53.....51010MG1TRBGN2501551002601T   53
MG.1.TR.BGN.25015.5100.2601.T....53.....LIVEDBMG1TRBGN2501551002601T   53
MG.1.TR.BGN.25015.5100.2601.T....56.....51010MG1TRBGN2501551002601T   56
MG.1.TR.BGN.25015.5100.2601.T....56.....LIVEDBMG1TRBGN2501551002601T   56
MG.1.TR.BGN.25015.5100.2621.T....51.....51010MG1TRBGN2501551002621T   51