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morenasm
Contributor
Contributor

Keep First 5 Characters

Hi All

I am Rather new to Qlik,

I need help to remove unnecessary characters from some data,

This it what it looks like

Account Number

 H0020-01

B0017Teamc

Z1128Sample

B0017dbr

All i need is the First 5 Characters

It Must Looklike this

Account Number

 H0020

B0017

Z1128

B0017

Please can anybody Help

Apreciated

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Stoyan_Terziev
Partner - Creator III
Partner - Creator III

Hey,

 

Here you go:

YourTable:
LOAD
[Account Number],
Left([Account Number], 5) as ID
From YourSource.qvd (qvd);

 

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Stoyan_Terziev
Partner - Creator III
Partner - Creator III

Hey,

 

Here you go:

YourTable:
LOAD
[Account Number],
Left([Account Number], 5) as ID
From YourSource.qvd (qvd);

 

morenasm
Contributor
Contributor
Author

Awesome

Thanks this worked 100%

Appreciate the Help