Using explode on the 4th column, followed by an explode on the 5th column
would produce what you want (you might need to use split on the columns
first if they are not already an array).

Nicholas Szandor Hakobian, Ph.D.
Staff Data Scientist
Rally Health
nicholas.hakob...@rallyhealth.com


On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 9:09 AM, Debabrata Ghosh <mailford...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>         Greetings !
>
> I am having data in the format of the following row:
>
> ABZ|ABZ|AF|2,3,7,8,B,C,D,E,J,K,L,M,P,Q,T,U,X,Y|1,2,3,4,5|730
>
> I want to convert it into several rows in the format below:
>
> ABZ|ABZ|AF|2|1|730
> ABZ|ABZ|AF|3+1|730
> .
> .
> .
> ABZ|ABZ|AF|3|1|730
> ABZ|ABZ|AF|3|2|730
> ABZ|ABZ|AF|3|3|730
> .
> .
> .
> ABZ|ABZ|AF|Y|4|730
> ABZ|ABZ|AF||Y|5|730
>
> Basically, I want to consider the various combinations of the 4th and 5th
> columns (where the values are delimited by commas) and accordingly generate
> the above rows from a single row. Please can you suggest me for a good way
> of acheiving this. Thanks in advance !
>
> Regards,
>
> Debu
>

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