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how to split data from one field in to two fields
Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 7:28 pm
by ashok
Hi,
need help regarding spliting data from one field, and send it to two fields,
example:
ID | FIELD1 | FIELD2
MRPG2001 | |
RESULT:
ID | FIELD1 | FIELD2
MRPG2001 | MRP | G2001
Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 8:18 pm
by kduke
The field() function can split it based on any one character separator.
field(Col1, '|', 2)
Will give you the second field using '|' as a separator.
Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 4:19 am
by vmcburney
Have a look at the server job developers guide in your DataStage documentation. There is a section there on string functions. There are many ways to split up a string, the LEFT and RIGHT functions can split your string if you are always taking 3 and 5 characters.
Posted: Sun Oct 17, 2004 8:15 am
by chulett
That and as another example, the ever popular substring operator - the square brackets.
For example:
MRPG2001[1,3] = MRP
MRPG2001[4,5] = G2001
Best to read up as Vince suggested, so that you know about all of the Weapons of Mass Deconstruction at your disposal.
