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st: Splitting string by parse option
From
Sebastian Say <[email protected]>
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Subject
st: Splitting string by parse option
Date
Wed, 5 Mar 2014 03:12:08 -0600
Hi I have a string variable called cofiler, in which the cell contains
names of organizations all separated by "XOOD_".
When i tried to use the split var, parse (XOOD_) option, it shows
cofiler1, cofiler2....cofiler42 generated.
My guess is at least 1 cell has 42 names, each separated by XOOD_
However, when I looked at these generated variables, it seems that
they are all empty.
When I browsed the data, in the original string variable that was to
be splitted, it shows only 1 organization's name in any cell. However,
when I click onto each of these cells, I can see multiple names in the
display bar at the top.
My question is, what's causing this problem? And what have I done
wrong such that when I tried to parse the string variable, nothing
shows up but variables were indeed generated?
Best,
Sebastian
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