This worked for me! Without using the len, index functions load *, SubField(first_lastname,'.',1) as first_name, SubField(first_lastname,'.',2) as last_name ; LOAD objectid, SubField(objectid,'2',1), SubField(objectid,'2',2) as first_lastname, SubField(objectid,'.',1) FROM [lib://DataFiles/datacleaningfile.xlsx] (ooxml, embedded labels, table is [data cleaning]);
Great video - how would you find the first occurrence of a non-numeric after the XY32 ? Like if there was a XY33 we couldn't use the literal in the index clause?