Split fields to rows transform Icon Split fields to rows

Description

The Split Fields To Rows transform splits a row containing a delimited field into multiple new rows, one per split value.

Supported Engines

Hop Engine

Supported

Spark

Maybe Supported

Flink

Maybe Supported

Dataflow

Maybe Supported

Usage

The original row is not delivered to following transforms.

The original field is left in each new row to assist in debugging or error handling.

It can be removed via a Select Values transform if needed.

The original field must be a string field.

A new field name must be specified.

If the value type/format of the new row is not specified, the new field will use the same type/format as the original field.

Examples

  • Delimiter Regular Expression to split on a comma, or a space, or a comma + space (* n): [,\s]\s*

Options

Option Description

Transform name

Name of the transform.

Field to split

The field you want to split.

Delimiter

The delimiter or separator used. Special characters (e.g. CHAR ASCII HEX01) can be set with the format $[value], e.g. $[01] or $[6F,FF,00,1F].

Delimiter is a Regular Expression

The regular expression to match the delimiter.

New field name

The name of the new field.