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How do we add a whitespace within the string in one of lists of which specific character length bigger than standard form?

For an example;

 

Character Column#1 at row#1: asd 123 deg jkldjsakldjlk 1124

 

if length of any of word within the cell value is bigger than "5", I want a whitespace on the third character.

 

Ideal form is as below

Character Column#1 at row#1: asd 123 deg jkl djsakldjlk 1124

 

thanks,

Data TableScriptingRe: How do we add a whitespace within the string in one of lists of which specific character length bigger than standard form?

One way would be to use Regex.

 

This might work:

Names Default To Here(1);

line = "asd 123 deg jkldjsakldjlk 1124";
span_line = Regex(line, "([a-zA-Z0-9]{3})([a-zA-Z0-9]{3,})", "\1 \2", GLOBALREPLACE);
show(span_line == "asd 123 deg jkl djsakldjlk 1124");

line = "1 22 333 4444 55555 666666 7777777 88888888 999999999 0000000000";
span_line = Regex(line, "([a-zA-Z0-9]{3})([a-zA-Z0-9]{3,})", "\1 \2", GLOBALREPLACE);
show(span_line);

https://regex101.com/r/CuxFKx/1 

 

Re: How do we add a whitespace within the string in one of lists of which specific character length bigger than standard form?

Here is one way of doing what you want

Names Default To Here( 1 );
dt = Current Data Table();

For Each Row(
 holdString = "";
 wordNum = 1;
 While( Word( wordNum, :column 1, " " ) != "",
  theWord = Word( wordNum, :column 1, " " );
  If( Length( theWord ) > 5,
   theWord = Substr( theWord, 1, 3 ) || " " || Substr( theWord, 4 )
  );
  holdString = holdString || " " || theWord;
  wordNum++;
 );
 :Column 1 = Trim( holdString );