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transformations:massreplace

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Table-wide replace

This transformation performs the same replacement in all or selected columns.

It's typically used for data cleansing, e.g. for removing word 'NULL' in all columns.

EXAMPLE

Source table: The longest rivers in the world

River Length (km) Continent
Nile 6650 Africa
Amazon 6400 South America
Yangtze 6300 Asia
Mississippi 6275 North America
Yenisei 5539 Asia
Yellow River 5464 Asia
Ob 5410 Asia
Paraná 4880 South America

Objective: Replace "North America" or "South America" by simply "America"

Transformation parameters:

  • Search for: America
  • where it's: Entire cell or part of longer text
  • Replace with: America
  • which is: Entire cell
  • Perform replacement in: All columns

Output table:

River Length (km) Continent
Nile 6650 Africa
Amazon 6400 America
Yangtze 6300 Asia
Mississippi 6275 America
Yenisei 5539 Asia
Yellow River 5464 Asia
Ob 5410 Asia
Paraná 4880 America
transformations/massreplace.1428696306.txt.gz · Last modified: 2015/04/10 16:05 by elenap

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