I currently have a column with the following file name in one of my tables. C:\Users\John\OneDrive - Sales Solutions\Desktop\TimeXtender\TMX-DataSamples\RLZ\BESTERS - BESTERS POINT - BESTERS IND_DEC 22_101602_0.txt
Is there a way to remove the path name in the column to only have the file name?
I have a file for each month and have merged the files so all the data is in one table.
For example, remove this piece: C:\Users\John\OneDrive - Sales Solutions\Desktop\TimeXtender\TMX-DataSamples\RLZ\
and only show this piece: BESTERS - BESTERS POINT - BESTERS IND_DEC 22 as the file name.
I also need to have the Month Year (DEC 22) of each file copied into a new column called “Date”.
Is this at all possible?
Thank you
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Hi @Acumen
I tested the following SQL code
create table #Temp (FilePath Varchar(2000)) insert into #Temp SELECT 'C:\Users\John\OneDrive - Sales Solutions\Desktop\TimeXtender\TMX-DataSamples\RLZ\BESTERS - BESTERS POINT - BESTERS IND_DEC 22_101602_0.txt'
create table #Temp2 ((FileName] Varchar(2000))
INSERT INTO #Temp2 SELECT REPLACE(SUBSTRING( FilePath , LEN(FilePath) - CHARINDEX('\',REVERSE(FilePath)) + 2 , LEN(FilePath)),'.txt','') FROM #Temp
INSERT INTO #Temp3 select left((FileName], charindex('_', FileName], charindex('_', FileName])+1)-1) from #Temp2
select * from #Temp2 select * from #Temp3 select SUBSTRING(FileNameShort,CHARINDEX('_',FileNameShort)+1,LEN(FileNameShort)) as MonthYear From #Temp3 Drop Table #Temp Drop Table #Temp2 Drop Table #Temp3
and it seems to generate the desired output for the given file path
However, whether or not it will work for the other records depends on the file names being structured similarly. Therefore it needs to be tested further with different file paths.
In terms of how to implement it in TimeXtender, you could create 3 fields each with a custom transformation
Custom transformation for the File Name (i.e. taking the part after the last ‘\’ and removing ‘.txt’):