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Data & Analytics · Foundational

Data Parsing

Breaking a string or semi-structured value into components, such as splitting a full address into street, city and postal code.

Definition

Parsing uses delimiters, fixed positions, regular expressions or JSON and XML parsers.

Example

SPLIT_PART(full_name, ' ', 1) AS first_name

Exam tip

Parsing a combined field into atomic parts also supports first normal form.

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