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Qrew Member

2 years ago

Pipeline formula to extract last 5 characters of text string

Hello all, I have been trying to find any way to set up a pipeline that extracts the last 5 characters of a text string of varying length to copy to another field. There are some consistencies that...

DougHenning1

Community Manager

2 years ago

In Jinja you can use [-5:] on a string to get the last 5 characters. Example:

{{ a.field_name[-5:] }}

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Doug Henning
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AmyChristensen1
Qrew Trainee
2 years ago
This is the solution I tried first, but without the colon - which is probably why it only returned a single character! Mark's solution was more straightforward for this use case, but I'll keep this in my hip pocket for the future. Thanks!

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