With reference to the following posts:
and
and specifically the following fix
Internal ticket ID: AP-22915
Fix version(s): 5.3.2, 5.4.0
I note that range/boundary conditions are still not available in Row Filter and Row Splitter for String columns, which came as a surprise to me.
Although one of the suggested workarounds for boundary filters on other data types was to use two comparison conditions (for lower and upper boundary) within the same filter, this is not available for String data.
Are there any plans to implement this, so that we don’t have to resort to the use of Row Filter //deprecated
, or one of the “scripting” filters/splitters.
e.g, the following trivial example would retrieve all animals within an alphabetic range:
Another more common example is filtering dates held as strings without having to first convert them to date. (e.g. because they’ve just been pulled out of json - which, incidentally, was the catalyst for this post)
**Deprecated Row Splitter **
Row Splitter