I don't normally program in openoffice, but I thought I'd give it a shot since it's convenient for the end user. My problem is the following: I have copied the txt of a command into a cell and modified the command string so that it updates with corrected information. The updated cell output is ex:
INDEX(B4:C101,MATCH(MIN(C4:C101),C4:C101,0),1)
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This, however, needs to be run as an index function. I tried removing the index and referencing the cell with R2 = B4:C101,MATCH(MIN(C4:C101),C4:C101,0),1, so that would be a cell with =INDEX(R2), but it didn't work. I think it's because each argument needs to be input separately when linking to cells.
Short of rewritng the whole thing in three separate linked cells to update with individual arguments and link the index function column as =INDEX(R1,R2,R3,0), where R1 = B4:C101, R2 = MATCH(MIN(C4:C101),and R3= C4:C101,0),1 is there any way to input a string and run it as if it were all 4 arguments of the index function?
OpenOffice Calc usually uses a semi-colon rather than a comma to separate arguements in a function. You could put both values into R1 (separated by a space) and parse the text out to be used by INDIRECT to generate4 cell/range addresses.
With B4:B101 C4:C101 in R1 this should do.
=INDEX(INDIRECT(LEFT(R1; FIND(" "; R1)-1)); MATCH(MIN(INDIRECT(MID(R1; FIND(" "; R1)+1; 9))); INDIRECT(MID(R1; FIND(" "; R1)+1; 9)); 0))
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Goal: I have a bunch of keywords I'd like to categorise automatically based on topic parameters I set. Categories that match must be in the same column so the keyword data can be filtered.
e.g. If I have "Puppies" as a first topic, it shouldn't appear as a secondary or third topic otherwise the data cannot be filtered as needed.
Example Data: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TWYepApOtWDlwoTP8zkaflD7AoxD_LZ4PxssSpFlrWQ/edit?usp=sharing
Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11T5hhyestKRY4GpuwC7RF6tx-xQudNok/view?usp=sharing
Parameters Tab: I will add words in columns D-F that change based on the keyword data set and there will often be hundreds, if not thousands, of options for larger data sets.
Categories Tab: I'd like to have a formula or script that goes down the columns D-F in Parameters and fills in a corresponding value (in Categories! columns D-F respectively) based on partial match with column B or C (makes no difference to me if there's a delimiter like a space or not. Final data sheet should only have one of these columns though).
Things I've Tried:
I've tried a bunch of things. Nested IF formula with regexmatch works but seems clunky.
e.g. this formula in Categories! column D
=IF(REGEXMATCH($B2,LOWER(Parameters!$D$3)),Parameters!$D$3,IF(REGEXMATCH($B2,LOWER(Parameters!$D$4)),Parameters!$D$4,""))
I nested more statements changing out to the next cell in Parameters!D column (as in , manually adding $D$5, $D$6 etc) but this seems inefficient for a list thousands of words long. e.g. third topic will get very long once all dog breed types are added.
Any tips?
Functionality I haven't worked out:
if a string in Categories B or C contains more than one topic in the parameters I set out, is there a way I can have the first 2 to show instead of just the first one?
e.g. Cell A14 in Categories, how can I get a formula/automation to add both "Akita" & "German Shepherd" into the third topic? Concatenation with a CHAR(10) to add to new line is ideal format here. There will be other keywords that won't have both in there in which case these values will just show up individually.
Since this data set has a bunch of mixed breeds and all breeds are added as a third topic, it would be great to differentiate interest in mixes vs pure breeds without confusion.
Any ideas will be greatly appreciated! Also, I'm open to variations in layout and functionality of the spreadsheet in case you have a more creative solution. I just care about efficiently automating a tedious task!!
Try using custom function:
To create custom function:
1.Create or open a spreadsheet in Google Sheets.
2.Select the menu item Tools > Script editor.
3.Delete any code in the script editor and copy and paste the code below into the script editor.
4.At the top, click Save save.
To use custom function:
1.Click the cell where you want to use the function.
2.Type an equals sign (=) followed by the function name and any input value — for example, =DOUBLE(A1) — and press Enter.
3.The cell will momentarily display Loading..., then return the result.
Code:
function matchTopic(p, str) {
var params = p.flat(); //Convert 2d array into 1d
var buildRegex = params.map(i => '(' + i + ')').join('|'); //convert array into series of capturing groups. Example (Dog)|(Puppies)
var regex = new RegExp(buildRegex,"gi");
var results = str.match(regex);
if(results){
// The for loops below will convert the first character of each word to Uppercase
for(var i = 0 ; i < results.length ; i++){
var words = results[i].split(" ");
for (let j = 0; j < words.length; j++) {
words[j] = words[j][0].toUpperCase() + words[j].substr(1);
}
results[i] = words.join(" ");
}
return results.join(","); //return with comma separator
}else{
return ""; //return blank if result is null
}
}
Example Usage:
Parameters:
First Topic:
Second Topic:
Third Topic:
Reference:
Custom Functions
I've added a new sheet ("Erik Help") with separate formulas (highlighted in green currently) for each of your keyword columns. They are each essentially the same except for specific column references, so I'll include only the "First Topic" formula here:
=ArrayFormula({"First Topic";IF(A2:A="",,IFERROR(REGEXEXTRACT(LOWER(B2:B&C2:C),JOIN("|",LOWER(FILTER(Parameters!D3:D,Parameters!D3:D<>""))))) & IFERROR(CHAR(10)®EXEXTRACT(REGEXREPLACE(LOWER(B2:B&C2:C),IFERROR(REGEXEXTRACT(LOWER(B2:B&C2:C),JOIN("|",LOWER(FILTER(Parameters!D3:D,Parameters!D3:D<>""))))),""),JOIN("|",LOWER(FILTER(Parameters!D3:D,Parameters!D3:D<>""))))))})
This formula first creates the header (which can be changed within the formula itself as you like).
The opening IF condition leaves any row in the results column blank if the corresponding cell in Column A of that row is also blank.
JOIN is used to form a concatenated string of all keywords separated by the pipe symbol, which REGEXEXTRACT interprets as OR.
IFERROR(REGEXEXTRACT(LOWER(B2:B&C2:C),JOIN("|",LOWER(FILTER(Parameters!D3:D,Parameters!D3:D<>""))))) will attempt to extract any of the keywords from each concatenated string in Columns B and C. If none is found, IFERROR will return null.
Then a second-round attempt is made:
& IFERROR(CHAR(10)®EXEXTRACT(REGEXREPLACE(LOWER(B2:B&C2:C),IFERROR(REGEXEXTRACT(LOWER(B2:B&C2:C),JOIN("|",LOWER(FILTER(Parameters!D3:D,Parameters!D3:D<>""))))),""),JOIN("|",LOWER(FILTER(Parameters!D3:D,Parameters!D3:D<>"")))))
Only this time, REGEXREPLACE is used to replace the results of the first round with null, thus eliminating them from being found in round two. This will cause any second listing from the JOIN clause to be found, if one exists. Otherwise, IFERROR again returns null for round two.
CHAR(10) is the new-line character.
I've written each of the three formulas to return up to two results for each keyword column. If that is not your intention for "First Topic" and "Second Topic" (i.e., if you only wanted a maximum of one result for each of those columns), just select and delete the entire round-two portion of the formula shown above from the formula in each of those columns.
I have a column in my table which looks like below.
ResourceIdentifier
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arn:aws:ec2:us-east-1:7XXXXXX1:instance/i-09TYTYTY79716
arn:aws:glue:us-east-1:5XXXXXX85:devEndpoint/etl-endpoint
i-075656565f7fea3
i-02c3434343f22
qa-271111145-us-east-1-raw
prod-95756565631-us-east-1-raw
prod-957454551631-us-east-1-isin-repository
i-02XXXXXXf0
I want a new column called 'Trimmed Resource Identifier' which looks at ResourceIdentifier and if the value starts with "arn", then returns value after last "/", else returns the whole string.
For eg.
arn:aws:ec2:us-east-1:7XXXXXX1:instance/i-09TYTYTY79716 ---> i-09TYTYTY797168
i-02XXXXXXf0 --> i-02XXXXXXf0
How do I do this ? I tried creating a new column called "first 3 letters" by extracting first 3 letters of the ResourceIdentifier column but I am getting stuck at the step of adding conditional column. Please see the image below.
Is there a way I can do all of this in one step using DAX instead of creating a new intermediate column ?
Many Thanks
The GUI is too simple to do exactly what you want but go ahead and use it to create the next step, which we can then modify to work properly.
Filling out the GUI like this
will produce a line of code that looks like this (turn on the Formula Bar under the View tab in the query editor if you don't see this formula).
= Table.AddColumn(#"Name of Previous Step Here", "Custom",
each if Text.StartsWith([ResourceIdentifier], "arn") then "output" else [ResourceIdentifier])
The first three letters bit is already handled with the operator I chose, so all that remains is to change the "output" placeholder to what we actually want. There's a handy Text.AfterDelimiter function we can use for this.
Text.AfterDelimiter([ResourceIdentifier], "/", {0, RelativePosition.FromEnd})
This tells it to take the text after the first / (starting from the end). Replace "output" with this expression and you should be good to go.
I am struggling on creating a formula with Power Bi that would split a single rows value into a list of values that i want.
So I have a column that is called ID and it has values such as:
"ID001122, ID223344" or "IRRELEVANT TEXT ID112233, MORE IRRELEVANT;ID223344 TEXT"
What is important is to save the ID and 6 numbers after it. The first example would turn into a list like this: {"ID001122","ID223344"}. The second example would look exactly the same but it would just parse all the irrelevant text from between.
I was looking for some type of an loop formula where you could use the text find function to find ID starting point and use middle function to extract 8 characters from the start but I had no progress in finding such. I tried making lists from comma separator but I noticed that not all rows had commas to separate IDs.
The end results would be that the original value is on one column next to the list of parsed values which then could be expanded to new rows.
ID Parsed ID
"Random ID123456, Text;ID23456" List {"ID123456","ID23456"}
Any of you have former experience?
Hey I found the answer by myself using a good article similar to my problem.
Here is my solution without any further text parsing which i can do later on.
each let
PosList = Text.PositionOf([ID],"ID",Occurrence.All),
List = List.Transform(PosList, (x) => Text.Middle([ID],x,8))
in List
For example this would result "(ID343137,ID352973) ID358388" into {ID343137,ID352973,ID358388}
Ended up being easier than I thought. Suppose the solution relied again on the lists!
I'm trying to extract certain pieces of data from a very long string within a single cell. For the sake of this exercise, this is the data I have in cell A1.
a:2:{s:15:"info_buyRequest";a:5:{s:4:"uenc";s:252:"WN0aW9uYWwuaHRlqdyZ2dC1hdD0lN0JhZHR5cGUlN0QmdnQtcHRpPSU3QmFkd29yZHNfcHJvZHVjdHRhcmdldGlkJTdEJiU3Qmlnbm9y,";s:7:"product";s:4:"1253";s:8:"form_key";s:16:"wyfg89N";s:7:"options";a:6:{i:10144;s:5:"73068";i:10145;s:5:"63085";i:10141;s:5:"73059";i:10143;s:5:"73064";i:13340;s:5:"99988";i:10142;s:5:"73063";}s:3:"qty";s:1:"1";}s:7:"options";a:6:{i:0;a:7:{s:5:"label";s:5:"Color";s:5:"value";s:11:"White";s:11:"print_value";s:11:"White";s:9:"option_id";s:5:"10144";s:11:"option_type";s:9:"drop_down";s:12:"option_value";s:5:"73068";s:11:"custom_view";b:0;}i:1;a:7:{s:5:"label";s:4:"Trim";s:5:"value";s:11:"Black";s:11:"print_value";s:11:"Black";s:9:"option_id";s:5:"10145";s:11:"option_type";s:9:"drop_down";s:12:"option_value";s:5:"63085";s:11:"custom_view";b:0;}i:2;a:7:{s:5:"label";s:7:"Material";s:5:"value";s:15:"Vinyl";s:11:"print_value";s:15:"Vinyl";s:9:"option_id";s:5:"10141";s:11:"option_type";s:9:"drop_down";s:12:"option_value";s:5:"73059";s:11:"custom_view";b:0;}i:3;a:7:{s:5:"label";s:6:"Orientation";s:5:"value";s:17:"Left Side";s:11:"print_value";s:17:"Left Side";s:9:"option_id";s:5:"10143";s:11:"option_type";s:9:"drop_down";s:12:"option_value";s:5:"73064";s:11:"custom_view";b:0;}i:4;a:7:{s:5:"label";s:12:"Table";s:5:"value";s:16:"YES! Add Table";s:11:"print_value";s:16:"YES! Add Table";s:9:"option_id";s:5:"13340";s:11:"option_type";s:9:"drop_down";s:12:"option_value";s:5:"99988";s:11:"custom_view";b:0;}i:5;a:7:{s:5:"label";s:8:"Shipping";s:5:"value";s:20:"Front Door Delivery";s:11:"print_value";s:20:"Front Door Delivery";s:9:"option_id";s:5:"10142";s:11:"option_type";s:9:"drop_down";s:12:"option_value";s:5:"73063";s:11:"custom_view";b:0;}}}
The end result, would be to separate the values for Color, Trim, Material Orientation, etc.
The formula I was using is this:
=MID(LEFT(A4,FIND("print_value",A4)-9),FIND("Color",A4)+25,LEN(A4))
This basically looks in between two points and trims out the fat. It works, but only for the first iteration of "print_value". If I were to use this searching for "Trim"...
=MID(LEFT(A4,FIND("print_value",A4)-9),FIND("Trim",A4)+25,LEN(A4))
...I get an empty result. This happens because print_value is duplicate and not unique to the string. Excel doesn't understand what point to apply its function to and poops itself.
Even though there are unique factors within this string that I could essentially attach myself to (and arrive at the desired result), I CAN NOT use them as they will not be consistent and will render the formula useless when applied to other cells.
That said, here is what I need. Within this formula, I need a way to either A) tell the formula which iteration of print_value to find or B) change print_value to print_value(1,2,3,4, etc) and then run my trimming formula.
Few options based on this link:
1) VBA - Using a User Defined Function
If you're new to these then follow this tutorial.
Function FindN(sFindWhat As String, _
sInputString As String, N As Integer) As Integer
Dim J As Integer
Application.Volatile
FindN = 0
For J = 1 To N
FindN = InStr(FindN + 1, sInputString, sFindWhat)
If FindN = 0 Then Exit For
Next
End Function
2) Using a Formula
=FIND(CHAR(1),SUBSTITUTE(A1,"c",CHAR(1),3))
c is the character you want to find
A1 is the text you want to look in
3 is the nth instance
I am using Stata 14. I have US states and corresponding regions as integer.
I want create a string variable that represents the region for each observation.
Currently my code is
gen div_name = "A"
replace div_name = "New England" if div_no == 1
replace div_name = "Middle Atlantic" if div_no == 2
.
.
replace div_name = "Pacific" if div_no == 9
..so it is a really long code.
I was wondering if there is a shorter way to do this where I can automate assigning values rather than manually hard coding them.
You can define value labels in one line with label define and then use decode to create the string variable. See the help for those commands.
If the correspondence was defined in a separate dataset you could use merge. See e.g. this FAQ
There can't be a short-cut here other than typing all the names at some point or exploiting the fact that someone else typed them earlier into a file.
With nine or so labels, typing them yourself is quickest.
Note that you type one statement more than you need, even doing it the long way, as you could start
gen div_name = "New England" if div_no == 1