1 - Manual selection, Wildcard regex Selection, but lacking the type selection, the fact is most of the time you need strings to use it. So you have to use tricks in automation to make correct selections.
2 - If you want to convert numbers to strings columns, the type Long doesn’t work and return an invalid type identifier for variable in line 1: n
Hi @Fabien_Couprie , unfortunately both of these issues with String Man multi have been raised many times but never resolved.
It even led me at one point to produce a Workflow to demonstrate ways of dealing with the lack of type-based column selection, including writing a pair of components dedicated to acting as a wrapper to the node…
yep, unfortunately the feature isnt default for years.
and using a column splitter followed up with an column appender, which should just append the columns on the rowindex column, is extremely inefficiently programmed and takes excessive resources for large tables