Scott
If your integer is fixed width the Grepper can do it with a pattern [0-9][0-9][0-9]. That pattern will pick out a 3-digit integer from within the values. Cheers Bruce. Bruce Harold Geographic Information Solutions <http://www.gis.co.nz> www.gis.co.nz Ph. (64) (0) 9 537 3247 Mb. (+64) (0) 21 2995995 _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cifelli, Scott T. Sent: Thursday, 2 August 2007 7:02 a.m. To: [email protected] Subject: [fme] Data cleaning question Hi All- I was wondering what the easiest way is to clean an attribute and trim it to just an integer value. I have a column of data that holds alpa-numeric values in essentially a free-form field and I would like to just find the integer value in it and drop the rest. An example of the values that can be found in this field are: 123 123x 123x4 123-4 x123 123 - 1 123 (4) 123 1/2 .and probably a few other combinations. But in every case, I would only like the value 123 to be returned. I've looked thru the available transformers in workbench and cannot see any easy way to achieve this globally..rather, it seems as though I would have to look for every case. I know in some languages, you can just do an integer conversion on a field like this and it will just return the number value (except maybe the case where an alpha is first..but I can handle that easy enough). At any rate, just wondering what the best (read easiest) way is to do this type of cleanup. Thanks in advance, Scott Cifelli GIS Systems **************************************************************************** **** This e-mail and any files transmitted with it, are confidential to National Grid and are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this e-mail in error, please reply to this message and let the sender know.
