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Regular expression [A-Z] *

Hello,

How can I write "[A-Z] * " in Qlikview?

thank you

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swuehl
MVP
MVP

// That's the script code:

SET ThousandSep='.';

SET DecimalSep=',';

SET MoneyThousandSep='.';

SET MoneyDecimalSep=',';

SET MoneyFormat='€ #.##0,00;€ -#.##0,00';

SET TimeFormat='h:mm:ss';

SET DateFormat='D-M-YYYY';

SET TimestampFormat='D-M-YYYY h:mm:ss[.fff]';

SET MonthNames='jan;feb;mrt;apr;mei;jun;jul;aug;sep;okt;nov;dec';

SET DayNames='ma;di;wo;do;vr;za;zo';

Inputdata:

LOAD * INLINE

  [

  ID, Customer name, Phone number, Birth date

  123ABC, Fred Flintstone, 555-1234, FDJKJR@#09-06-1949#jklgerwnt

  456DEF, Wilma Flintstone, 555-5678, .nmrewui93#05-01-1950#kmrem4324

  ABC123, Barney Rubble, 555-9101, bhjewri432#07-03-1948#kmtjertv325

  789GHI, Betty Rubble, 5551121, 324pfdskm#24-11-1947#nmn43jkj32fd

  ];

Cleandata:

LOAD

  ID,

  if(RegExTest([Phone number], '^\d{3}-\d{4}') = -1, 'Yes', 'No') as [Input phone number is valid], // Test if the phone number consists of three digits followed by a hyphen and four digits

  RegExReplace([Phone number], '^(\d{3})(\d{4})', '$1-$2') as [Cleaned phone number], // Insert a hyphen between the third and fourth digit, if it is not already there

  RegExReplace([Customer name], '^^(\w+)\s(\w+)', '$2, $1') as [Cleaned customer name], // Reformat the customer name in "Lastname, Firstname" format

  RegExFind([Birth date] , '\d{2}-\d{2}-\d{4}', ';') as [Cleaned birth date] // Extract the birth date (a string in the form of xx-xx-xxxx) from the unclean, raw data

RESIDENT Inputdata WHERE RegExTest(ID, '^\d{3}[A-Z]{3}');



// And you need to copy this VBScript code into the Macro-Editor (CTRL-M should open it in the sheet view).

Function RegExTest(iString, Pattern, IgnoreCase)

' Returns TRUE if Pattern can be matched to iString

' iString: string, the input string to search in

' Pattern: string, the regular expression pattern to search for

' IgnoreCase: boolean, indicates if search should be case-sensitive

  set RE = New RegExp

  RE.Pattern = Pattern

  RE.IgnoreCase = IgnoreCase

  RegExTest = RE.Test(iString)

End Function

Function RegExReplace(iString, sPattern, rPattern)

  ' Replaces any occurence of sPattern within the string iString with rPattern

  ' and returns the modified string, if no match is found the original string

  ' is returned

  ' iString: string, the input string to search and replace in

  ' sPattern: string, the pattern to search for

  ' rPattern: string, the pattern to replace the found pattern with

  set RE = New RegExp

  RE.Pattern = sPattern

  RE.Global = True

  RegExReplace = RE.Replace(iString, rPattern)

End Function

Function RegExFind(iString, Pattern, Separator, IgnoreCase)

  ' Returns a string containing the matches that were found by searching for Pattern in iString.

  ' If more than 1 match was found, the results are separated by the character(s) specified in Separator

  ' iString: string, the input string to search

  ' Pattern: string, the pattern to search for

  ' Separator: string, the character(s) to use for separating results

  ' IgnoreCase: boolean, indicates if the search should be case-sensitive

  set RE = New RegExp

    RE.Pattern = Pattern

    RE.IgnoreCase = IgnoreCase

    RE.Global = True

   

    set Found = RE.Execute(iString)

    for i = 0 To Found.Count - 1

        Result = Result & Found(i).Value & Separator

    next

       

    RegExFind = left(Result, len(Result)-1)

   

End Function

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13 Replies
swuehl
MVP
MVP

There is no built in support for regular expressions, but you can use a Macro:

How to use regular expressions

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Author

Actuality, I can't open the file in that site. Could you copy me the code? thank you!

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Author

Hello, as I'm a beginer, my Qlikview is still a Test Version, so I can't open the files.qvw.

If somme one can give me the code, I'll be very appreciated!

tiago_hubner
Partner - Contributor III
Partner - Contributor III

Inputdata:

LOAD * INLINE

  [

  ID, Customer name, Phone number, Birth date

  123ABC, Fred Flintstone, 555-1234, FDJKJR@#09-06-1949#jklgerwnt

  456DEF, Wilma Flintstone, 555-5678, .nmrewui93#05-01-1950#kmrem4324

  ABC123, Barney Rubble, 555-9101, bhjewri432#07-03-1948#kmtjertv325

  789GHI, Betty Rubble, 5551121, 324pfdskm#24-11-1947#nmn43jkj32fd

  ];

Cleandata:

LOAD

  ID,

  if(RegExTest([Phone number], '^\d{3}-\d{4}') = -1, 'Yes', 'No') as [Input phone number is valid], // Test if the phone number consists of three digits followed by a hyphen and four digits

  RegExReplace([Phone number], '^(\d{3})(\d{4})', '$1-$2') as [Cleaned phone number], // Insert a hyphen between the third and fourth digit, if it is not already there

  RegExReplace([Customer name], '^^(\w+)\s(\w+)', '$2, $1') as [Cleaned customer name], // Reformat the customer name in "Lastname, Firstname" format

  RegExFind([Birth date] , '\d{2}-\d{2}-\d{4}', ';') as [Cleaned birth date] // Extract the birth date (a string in the form of xx-xx-xxxx) from the unclean, raw data

RESIDENT Inputdata WHERE RegExTest(ID, '^\d{3}[A-Z]{3}'); // Test if the ID consists of 3 digits followed by 3 letters, if not discard the record

Regular expressions in the load script - The Qlik Fix! The Qlik Fix!

swuehl
MVP
MVP

// That's the script code:

SET ThousandSep='.';

SET DecimalSep=',';

SET MoneyThousandSep='.';

SET MoneyDecimalSep=',';

SET MoneyFormat='€ #.##0,00;€ -#.##0,00';

SET TimeFormat='h:mm:ss';

SET DateFormat='D-M-YYYY';

SET TimestampFormat='D-M-YYYY h:mm:ss[.fff]';

SET MonthNames='jan;feb;mrt;apr;mei;jun;jul;aug;sep;okt;nov;dec';

SET DayNames='ma;di;wo;do;vr;za;zo';

Inputdata:

LOAD * INLINE

  [

  ID, Customer name, Phone number, Birth date

  123ABC, Fred Flintstone, 555-1234, FDJKJR@#09-06-1949#jklgerwnt

  456DEF, Wilma Flintstone, 555-5678, .nmrewui93#05-01-1950#kmrem4324

  ABC123, Barney Rubble, 555-9101, bhjewri432#07-03-1948#kmtjertv325

  789GHI, Betty Rubble, 5551121, 324pfdskm#24-11-1947#nmn43jkj32fd

  ];

Cleandata:

LOAD

  ID,

  if(RegExTest([Phone number], '^\d{3}-\d{4}') = -1, 'Yes', 'No') as [Input phone number is valid], // Test if the phone number consists of three digits followed by a hyphen and four digits

  RegExReplace([Phone number], '^(\d{3})(\d{4})', '$1-$2') as [Cleaned phone number], // Insert a hyphen between the third and fourth digit, if it is not already there

  RegExReplace([Customer name], '^^(\w+)\s(\w+)', '$2, $1') as [Cleaned customer name], // Reformat the customer name in "Lastname, Firstname" format

  RegExFind([Birth date] , '\d{2}-\d{2}-\d{4}', ';') as [Cleaned birth date] // Extract the birth date (a string in the form of xx-xx-xxxx) from the unclean, raw data

RESIDENT Inputdata WHERE RegExTest(ID, '^\d{3}[A-Z]{3}');



// And you need to copy this VBScript code into the Macro-Editor (CTRL-M should open it in the sheet view).

Function RegExTest(iString, Pattern, IgnoreCase)

' Returns TRUE if Pattern can be matched to iString

' iString: string, the input string to search in

' Pattern: string, the regular expression pattern to search for

' IgnoreCase: boolean, indicates if search should be case-sensitive

  set RE = New RegExp

  RE.Pattern = Pattern

  RE.IgnoreCase = IgnoreCase

  RegExTest = RE.Test(iString)

End Function

Function RegExReplace(iString, sPattern, rPattern)

  ' Replaces any occurence of sPattern within the string iString with rPattern

  ' and returns the modified string, if no match is found the original string

  ' is returned

  ' iString: string, the input string to search and replace in

  ' sPattern: string, the pattern to search for

  ' rPattern: string, the pattern to replace the found pattern with

  set RE = New RegExp

  RE.Pattern = sPattern

  RE.Global = True

  RegExReplace = RE.Replace(iString, rPattern)

End Function

Function RegExFind(iString, Pattern, Separator, IgnoreCase)

  ' Returns a string containing the matches that were found by searching for Pattern in iString.

  ' If more than 1 match was found, the results are separated by the character(s) specified in Separator

  ' iString: string, the input string to search

  ' Pattern: string, the pattern to search for

  ' Separator: string, the character(s) to use for separating results

  ' IgnoreCase: boolean, indicates if the search should be case-sensitive

  set RE = New RegExp

    RE.Pattern = Pattern

    RE.IgnoreCase = IgnoreCase

    RE.Global = True

   

    set Found = RE.Execute(iString)

    for i = 0 To Found.Count - 1

        Result = Result & Found(i).Value & Separator

    next

       

    RegExFind = left(Result, len(Result)-1)

   

End Function

evan_kurowski
Specialist
Specialist

YAS!   These are working very nicely, thank you Stefan.  I have worked out too many of these, character by character with the components we do have in the native scripting syntax.  This adds an "extra gear", love it!

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Author

Hi Evan,

Could you please help me ? I am new to qlikview.

I am trying to achieve below functionality...

Count of fields from particular column where field consist special character.

Thanks & Regards,

Ashish

evan_kurowski
Specialist
Specialist

Hello Ashish,   While I think the drop-in Regex() functions are awesome, if you're only seeking to detect one specific special character, you could do that without Regex.


Something that seems to have been updated between QV 11 & QV 12 is the capability of the chr()/ord() functions to reach into the upper planes of unicode.

QV 11 chr()/ord() function seemed to stop detecting new characters at 65,536.
QV 12 chr()/ord() function may go into planes beyond 2^16 and extend into 2 million characters? 


But if you can establish the Ord() of your special character..  for example, let's say seeking chr(50000)  썐


The to get a count of rows in that field containing that specific character could have several syntax options, but one route:  =count( {<MyField={'*썐*'}>}  MyField)