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Parsing pipped characters

James Gill
in Calculation Engine (Define Fields)

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I don't have very much experience in parsing text. I have a field that contains a set of set of values that are separated by the "|" character. I would like to be able to pull the data held within the pipes for a specific position but I don't know how to do that.

Say I have the following value in a text field;

Train|Bus|Car|Plane

how would I go about making a calc that pulls Car from that data set?

Edited by Guest
ID Field Type

Try =

GetValue ( Substitute ( text ; "|" ; ¶ ) ; 3 )

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Thanks! That works perfectly.

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