I am facing a problem at my workplace. At the moment i’m working at a project and i have to match IDs that need to look like that: 1234567890 but how i get them is 1234567890_43_dw43d
So basically, these IDs are mostly (there are rarely other lenghts but they are always numbers inly and shorter than 10 digits) 10 numbers long but come with a “tail” that needs to be removed. I already tried the String manipulator nodes and the String replacer. Either i use the wrong syntax or the nodes are not the ones i’m looking for since nothing is happening.
Additional difficulty: i can’t install Knime extensions because it’s a corporate environment, so the stock version of Knime is the only thing i have.
First of all, thank you for your reply.
I tried both cell splitter nodes, but i can’t egt it to work…
Could you bhelp me with thw settings there? the screenshot i appended is how i configured the node.
at the end of the file, Knime appemnded columns that splitted, in my case, the string into sections where there was a _ , as i specified it as the deliminter. the number of digits the chunks may consist of are 10 as specified.
glad you solved it and welcome to KNIME Community Forum!
Regarding your manipulation problem you can use Regex if familiar or for example following functions in String Manipulation node: substr($column1$, 0 , indexOf($column1$, "_" ))
Regarding you difficulty with corporate environment you can install extensions from a local zip file. See instructions in last paragraph from here: https://www.knime.com/downloads/update
Instead of using Cell Splitter which produces 3 columns (or more if there are more extra parts separated with _), as @ipazin has suggested you could use a String Manipulation node with this expression: regexReplace($column1$, "_.*", "")
Where “column1” is the column containing IDs in the raw format:1234567890_43_dw43d
The result is this:1234567890
You can append a new column or replace the existing column.
