I have column in tableau with following values:
1234
3456
6789
camp-1
camp-2
camp-3
I only want to show filter with values
camp-1
camp-2
camp-3
How can I only select the alphabetic values in filter in tableau?
Your example is not clear about what you want to include and what you want to exclude. To explain better, I took an elaborated example
Case-1 If you want to search/filter for digits at start, use this calculated field
REGEXP_MATCH([Field1], '^[0-9]')
Case-2 If you want to search for numbers anywhere, use this
REGEXP_MATCH([Field1], '(.*)[0-9]')
Case-3 If digits only are required
REGEXP_MATCH([Field1], '^[0-9]+$')
case-4 for alphabet at start use this
REGEXP_MATCH([Field1], '^[:alpha:]')
Results of all matches are shown below
Note Combining numbers anywhere AND alphabet at start you can filter out case1, case2 and case3 only.
Good Luck
If the Tableau column contains a mixture of numbers and text, the column will be a text column and all content will be considered as text. This reduces the problem to that of identifying specific rows that contain non-numeric values.
This requires some string manipulation and comparison. If you know that the structure of the content in those rows is predictable (eg the first character is always a letter when there are non numeric characters in the row) then a simple equation will filter on those rows:
if ascii(left([Text And Numbers],1) )>57 then 'text' else 'number' END
This exploits the observation that the ASCII decimal code for the digit 9 is 57 and most of the ASCII characters with higher codes are letters or punctuation (which is a fair assumption if nothing other than numbers, letters or punctuation are present in your data).
Obviously, if letters and numbers could appear anywhere in the string you need a more complex function but Tableau provides the option to use regular expressions which can code much more complex text analysis like is any alphabetic character present in a string (see this for some ideas of the appropriate regex expressions).
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I have a MySQL query to find 10 digit phone numbers that start with +1
SELECT blah
FROM table
WHERE phone REGEXP'^\\+[1]{1}[0-9]{10}$'
How can I filter this REGEXP further to only search certain 3 digit area codes? (ie. International 10 digit phone numbers who share US number format)
I tried using the IN clause ie. IN('+1809%','+1416%') but ended up with error in syntax
WHERE phone REGEXP'^\\+[1]{1}[0-9]{10}$' IN('+1809%','+1416%')
You may use a grouping construct with an alternation operator here, like
REGEXP '^\\+1(809|416)[0-9]{7}$'
^^^^^^^^^
Just subtract 3 from 10 to match the trailing digits. Note that in MySQL versions prior to 8.x, you cannot use non-capturing groups, you may only use capturing ones.
Also, [1]{1} pattern is equal to 1 because each pattern is matched exactly once by default (i.e. {1} is always redundant) and it makes littel sense to use a character class [...] with just one single symbol inside, it is meant for two or more, or to avoid escaping some symbols, but 1 does not have to be escaped as it is a word char, so the square brackets are totally redundant here.
I am trying to write one single formula to identify all the patterns in a column/field. For example: Below are the five different patterns
AG 5643 895468 UWEB
7546 695321 IJJK
PE 45612384
8642567921
16724385
Formula for
First pattern: Contains 4 numbers 6 numbers
'*[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9] [0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9] *' This is not working. Can we specify the length? Something like this [0-9]{4} - 4 digit number?
First pattern should pick second one also.
3rd one: first 2 characters are alphabets 8 or 10 digit numbers
4th one: 10 digit number
5th one 8 digit number
Thanks in advance!
If you're working in MySQL you can use regular expressions with the RLIKE filter operator.
For example, WHERE text RLIKE '[0-9]{8}' finds all the rows with any consecutive sequence of eight digits in them anywhere. (http://sqlfiddle.com/#!9/44996/1/0)
WHERE text RLIKE '^[0-9]{8}%' finds the rows consisting of nothing but an eight-digit sequence. (http://sqlfiddle.com/#!9/44996/2/0)
WHERE text RLIKE '^[0-9A-Z]{2} ' finds the rows starting with two letters or digits and then a space. (http://sqlfiddle.com/#!9/44996/3/0)
You get the idea. Regular expressions have a lot of power to them, generally beyond the scope of a SO answer to explain. Beware, though. This is a common saying: If you solve a problem with e regular expression, now you have two problems. You need to be careful with them.
Does anyone know how to match even numbers and odd numbers of letter using regexp in mysql? i need to match like a even number of A's followed by an odd number of G's and then at least one TC? For example: acgtccAAAAGGGTCatg would match up. It's something for dna sequencing
An even number of A's can be expressed as (AA)+ (one or more instance of AA; so it'll match AA, AAAA, AAAAAA...). An odd number of Gs can be expressed as G(GG)* (one G followed by zero or more instances of GG, so that'll match G, GGG, GGGGG...).
Put that together and you've got:
/(AA)+G(GG)*TC/
However, since regex engines will try to match as much as possible, this expression will actually match a substring of AAAGGGTC (ie. AAGGGTC)! In order to prevent that, you could use a negative lookbehind to ensure that the character before the first A isn't another A:
/(?<!A)(AA)+G(GG)*TC/
...except that MySQL doesn't support lookarounds in their regexes.
What you can do instead is specify that the pattern either starts at the beginning of the string (anchored by ^), or is preceded by a character that's not A:
/(^|[^A])(AA)+G(GG)*TC/
But note that with this pattern an extra character will be captured if the pattern isn't found at the start of the string so you'll have to chop of the first character if it's not an A.
You can maybe try something like (AA)*(GG)*GTC
I think that would do the trick. Don't know if there's a special syntax for mysql though
I have created an SQL database using Java. I have a table created which has two columns, the first being a big integer which increments, the second I have tried defining it as a char, varchar and binary.
But I'm still not getting the desired functionality. Say I try and store a hex number 0a into the char column and I get an error. I appended 0x to the beginning and it seems to store, but when I print out the contents it is blank. Or in some cases I get characters such as '/' or '?'. I also tried using SQL explorer and it gives me the same result viewing the table,
My problem is I need to store an eight character hex string such as eb8d4ee6.
Could someone please advise me of how this can be done?
See http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/hexadecimal-literals.html
MySQL supports hexadecimal values,
written using X'val', x'val', or 0xval
format, where val contains hexadecimal
digits (0..9, A..F). Lettercase of the
digits does not matter. For values
written using X'val' or x'val' format,
val must contain an even number of
digits. For values written using 0xval
syntax, values that contain an odd
number of digits are treated as having
an extra leading 0. For example, 0x0a
and 0xaaa are interpreted as 0x0a and
0x0aaa.
In numeric contexts, hexadecimal
values act like integers (64-bit
precision). In string contexts, they
act like binary strings, where each
pair of hex digits is converted to a
character:
You probably should store the Hex number in an integer column. You can then convert back to hex when selecting using the HEX() function.
E.g.,
INSERT INTO MyTable (`MyIntegerColumn`) VALUES (0xeb8d4ee6);
You can use a Json column:
And use JSON.stringify(hex) to insert and you can always get the result via select and compare too
Is there a way to set an input mask in MS Access 2007 so that certain elements are optional? UK postcodes can be in a number of formats: LL00 0LL or L00 0LL or even LL00 L00LL. For this particular assignment, I need only worry about the first two formats.
So, is there a way for me to set the input mask so that the first letter is optional?
Found an answer here and can just use the following:
LA0# oLL
A defines a letter or digit and # defines a digit or a space and removes the space when inserted into database.
Don't bother. Just use a text field and let the users insert the blanks. Put some code in checking for approriate alphabetic vs numeric characters.
The advntage is this approach will work for any country.