Split on multiple delimiter OR chaining commands.

[Destek11]

Hi, I am looking for the best approach to this problem

I have a field that has multiple values separated by a "," I am currently splitting and displaying only the first value with

Last(FirstN(Split(ThisItem.Person,","),1)).Result

I have run into an issue that the data is not tidy and some additional delimiters have been used, such as ";".

I now need to either split on "," OR ":", Or run a substitute command before running the existing command

Substitute( ThisItem.Person, ";", "," )

I am not sure how to achieve either,

run both Last(FirstN(Split(ThisItem.Person,","),1)).Result AND Substitute( ThisItem.Person, ";", "," ) at the same time

OR

append ";" into the list of possible delimiters

Last(FirstN(Split(ThisItem.Person,","),1)).Result

I hope this post makes sense.... And someone can point me in the right direction.

[WarrenBelz · Accepted solution]

Hi @Destek11 ,

Try

Last(
   FirstN(
      Split(
         Substitute(
            ThisItem.Person,
            ";",
            ","
         ),
         ","
      ),
      1
   )
).Result

although in the case above it would simply be

First
   Split(
      Substitute(
         ThisItem.Person,
         ";",
         ","
      ),
      ","
   )
).Result

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[Destek11]

Works perfect, thank you very much.