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Data Cleansing Rules

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The various conditions available for Data Cleansing are explained below.

Conditions Description Inputs Example
Add Number Add a number to the value Number to be added with Add Number (5): Adds 5 to the value
Append Add a string to the end of the value Text to be added at the end Append(s)
Converts the value
Item to Items
Data present after Extracts the data present
after the string specified
String Data present after(Mr.)
Displays the name John after Mr.
Data present before Extracts the data present
before the string specified
String Data present before(rupees)
Displays the amount 1000 before rupees
Extract Date Extracts the value of date from
the value field
No inputs Extracts 28 from 28-March-2021 18:30:01
Extract Month Extracts the month number from
the value field
No inputs Extracts 3 from 28-March-2021 18:30:01
Extract Year Extracts year from
the value field
No inputs Extracts 2021 from 28-March-2021 18:30:01
Left Strip Removes leading whitespace
(on the left)
No inputs Removes leading whitespaces
Lower Change the text to lower case No inputs
Changes the text
to lowercase
Multiply Number Multiply the value with
the specified number
Number to be multiplied with Multiply Number(2): Multiplies the value
with 2
Negative of Number Converts the value to a negative number No inputs
Converts
2 to -2
Prepend Add a string at the beginning of the value Text to be added at the beginning Prepend(e)
Converts the value
mailid to emailid
Remove Remove a section of the text Text to be removed Remove(Smith): Removes Smith from
the name John Smith
Replace None Converts the replaced text to the text
which was present before replacing
No inputs Text before replacing is retained
Replace text Replace a section of text
with the specified text
Text that has to be replaced and
Text to be replaced with
Replace(John Smith, Peter John): Replaces
John Smith with Peter John
Replace regex Replace a section of text
with the specified text that matches
the regular expression pattern
Regular expression to be used to replace the text
and Text to be replaced with
Replaceregex(\s+, )
Replaces multiple spaces
between text characters with
single space
Right Strip Removes the trailing whitespace
(on the right)
No inputs Removes trailing whitespace
Sub String Display the substring of a value Position from where
the sub string must start
and Total number of characters
to be displayed
Substring(1, 4)
Converts the value
PETER to ETER
Subtract Number Subtracts the value with the specified number Number to be subtracted with Subtract Number(5): Subtracts 5 from the value
To Date Change the date format Current date format and Expected date format To Date(25/2/21, 25/02/2021)
Converts 25/2/21 to 25/02/2021
To String Converts the value to a string Length of the string To String(5)
Converts June1981 to June1
Upper Change the text to upper case No inputs
Changes the text
to uppercase
Trim Whitespaces Trim the spaces in
the beginning and the end of the value field
No inputs Trim whitespaces
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