Regex in Tableau pattern - tableau-api

I have the following string.
p3266 -- MR2015 - Conversion Task 5 - TRF for PLM 2016-08-13.fixTrfWorkOrder -- TRF Header Work Order to WBS conversion 2016-08-25. LCI# PYF
Im trying to regex just the (LCI# PYF)
this is what i have so far.
REGEXP_EXTRACT([\n\r].[*LCI\s*]([^\n\r]*)
how every this string is not always the same. sometimes there is the space between the # XXX sometimes not. I mainly need just the 3 digit letters (PYF) to be the returned value.

You may try:
REGEXP_EXTRACT('p3266 -- MR2015 - Conversion Task 5 - TRF for PLM 2016-08-13.fixTrfWorkOrder -- TRF Header Work Order to WBS conversion 2016-08-25. LCI# PYF',
'LCI#\s*(\S+)')
This would match and capture the non whitespace term appearing after LCI#, which is followed by optional whitespace.
Demo

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Azure Data Factory - Dynamic Skip Lines Expression

I am attempting to import a CSV into ADF however the file header is not the first line of the file. It is dynamic therefore I need to match it based on the first column (e.g "TestID,") which is a string.
Example Data (Header is on Line 4)
Date:,01/05/2022
Time:,00:30:25
Test Temperature:,25C
TestID,StartTime,EndTime,Result
TID12345-01,00:45:30,00:47:12,Pass
TID12345-02,00:46:50,00:49:12,Fail
TID12345-03,00:48:20,00:52:17,Pass
TID12345-04,00:49:12,00:49:45,Pass
TID12345-05,00:50:22,00:51:55,Fail
I found this article which addresses this issue however I am struggling to rewrite the expression from using an integer to using a string.
https://kromerbigdata.com/2019/09/28/adf-dynamic-skip-lines-find-data-with-variable-headers
First Expression
iif(!isNull(toInteger(left(toString(byPosition(1)),1))),toInteger(rownum),toInteger(0))
As the article states, this expression looks at the first character of each row and if it is an integer it will return the row number (rownum)
How do I perform this action for a string (e.g "TestID,")
Many Thanks
Jonny
I think you want to consider first line that starts with string as your header and preceding lines that starts with numbers should not be considered as header. You can use isNan function to check if the first character is Not a number(i.e. string) as seen in the below modified expression:
iif(isNan(left(toString(byPosition(1)),1))
,toInteger(rownum)
,toInteger(0)
)
Following is a breakdown of the above expression:
left(toString(byPosition(1)),1): gets first character fron left side of the first column.
isNan: checks if the character is "not a number".
iif: not a number, true then return rownum, false then return 0.
Or you can also use functions like isInteger() to check if the first character is an integer or not and perform actions accordingly.
Later on as explained in the cited article you need to find minimum rownum to skip.
Hope it helps.

How to remove double Quotes In DataStage using a transformer stage?

We receiving Input data like below
“VENKATA,KRISHNA”
I want output like below
VENKATA,KRISHNA
Can anyone help me with this
Check out the Ereplace function - it allows to replace certain characters so you could rplace " with '' (empty string).
An alternative is TRIM - you can specify which character the command should trim and also if All occurrences or Both (from both sides of the string) plus more.

Can I write a PCRE conditional that only needs the no-match part?

I am trying to create a regular expression to determine if a string contains a number for an SQL statement. If the value is numeric, then I want to add 1 to it. If the number is not numeric, I want to return a 1. More or less. Here is the SQL:
SELECT
field,
CASE
WHEN regexp_like(field, '^ *\d*\.?\d* *$') THEN dec(field) + 1
ELSE 1
END nextnumber
FROM mytable
This actually works, and returns something like this:
INVALID 1
00000 1
00001E 1
00379 380
00013 14
99904 99905
But to push the envelope of understanding, what if I wanted to cover negative numbers, or those with a positive sign. The sign would have to immediately precede or follow the number, but not both, and I would not want to allow white space between the sign and the number.
I came up with a conditional expression with a capture group to capture the sign on the front of the number to determine if a sign was allowed on the end, but it seems a little awkward to handle given I don't really need a yes-pattern.
Here is the modified regex: ^ ([+-]?)*\d*\.?\d*(?(1) *|[+-]? *)$
This works at regex101.com, but in order for it to work I need to have something before the pipe, so I have to duplicate the next pattern in both the yes-pattern and the no-pattern.
All that background for this question: How can I avoid that duplication?
EDIT: DB2 for i uses International Components for Unicode to provide regular expression processing. It turns out that this library does not support conditionals like PRCE, so I changed the tags on this question. The answer given by Wiktor Stribiżew provides a working alternative to the conditional by using a negative lookahead.
You do not have to duplicate the end pattern, just move it outside the conditional:
^ *([+-])?\d*\.?\d*(?(1)|[+-]?) *$
See the regex demo. So, the yes-part is empty, and the no-part has an optional pattern.
You may also solve it with a mere negative lookahead:
^ *([+-](?!.*[-+]))?\d*\.?\d*[+-]? *$
See another regex demo. Here, ([+-](?!.*[-+]))? matches (optionally) a + or - that are not followed with any 0+ char followed with another + or -.

how to remove # character from national data type in cobol

i am facing issue while converting unicode data into national characters.
When i convert the Unicode data into national using national-of function, some junk character like # is appended after the string.
E.g
Ws-unicode pic X(200)
Ws-national pic N(600)
--let the value in Ws-Unicode is これらの変更は. getting from java end.
move function national-of ( Ws-unicode ,1208 ) to Ws-national.
--after converting value is like これらの変更は #.
i do not want the extra # character added after conversion.
please help me to find out the possible solution, i have tried to replace N'#' with space using inspect clause.
it worked well but failed in some specific scenario like if we have # in input from user end. in that case genuine # also converted to space.
Below is a snippet of code I used to convert EBCDIC to UTF. Before I was capturing string lengths, I was also getting # symbols:
STRING
FUNCTION DISPLAY-OF (
FUNCTION NATIONAL-OF (
WS-EBCDIC-STRING(1:WS-XML-EBCDIC-LENGTH)
WS-EBCDIC-CCSID
)
WS-UTF8-CCSID
)
DELIMITED BY SIZE
INTO WS-UTF8-STRING
WITH POINTER WS-XML-UTF8-LENGTH
END-STRING
SUBTRACT 1 FROM WS-XML-UTF8-LENGTH
What this code does is string the UTF8 representation of the EBCIDIC string into another variable. The WITH POINTER clause will capture the new length of the string + 1 (+ 1 because the pointer is positioned to the next position after the string ended).
Using this method, you should be able to know exactly how long second string is and use that string with the exact length.
That should remove the unwanted #s.
EDIT:
One thing I forgot to mention, in my case, the # signs were actually EBCDIC low values when viewing the actual hex on the mainframe
Use inspect with reverse and stop after first occurence of #

Format postgres numeric like money ($0.20)

I have a numeric column that I'm trying to format like currency, but I can't seem to get the format right. I currently have:
to_char(my_column, 'fml9999999999999999999D9999999999999999999')
but it outputs
$.2
If I remove the 'fm' modifier, it outputs:
$ .2000000000000000000
How would I go about getting it to preserve at least 1 digit on the left, and at least 2 digits on the right while removing all the rest of the trailing 0's?
Figured it out: the trick is to use 0's where you want it to preserve the digits:
to_char(my_column, 'fm9999999999999990D00')