Splitting Variable to Collection

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Trying to split a variable into a collection like the example below

Variable

Header1:Data1\nHeader2:Data2\nHeader3:Data3\n........Header30:Data30

Require Collection

Header1	Header2	Header3	Header30
Data1	Data2	Data3	Data30

Data may possibly have a ':' within it but Header never will.

Any help would be appreciated

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WarrenBelz 155,415 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Hi @MikeSwerve ,

The issue is that you cannot dynamically create field names. The code below will separate it all and if you put it in a gallery with a wrap count of 2, it looks like yours transposed, but that is the best you will do.

With( { wSplit: Split( YourTextHere, "\n" ) }, ClearCollect( colSplit, Ungroup( ForAll( wSplit, Split( Result, ":" ) ), "Value" ) ) )

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Thanks WarrenBelz, that's not really the outcome I wanted.

If I had the 2 records come in as
Record 1 - Header
Header1|||Header2|||Header3|||.....Header30

Record 2 - Data
Data1|||Data2|||Data3|||.....Data30

And display it in a gallery as below
Header1 Data1
Header2 Data2
Header3 Data3
Header30 Data30

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@MikeSwerve ,

Correct - that is exactly the result I received testing it. As I said, you cannot create field/column names dynamically.

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Sorry WarrenBelz, I didnt set the text wrap to 2.

Some of the data has a ':' in it and its splitting those also, is there a way to split at the first ':' after every '\n'

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@MikeSwerve ,

One thing about delimited data is you have to make it consistent - for instance CSV files cannot contain any commas other than between fields. The problem is (with a bit of code gymnastics), you might be able to get the first part before the split, but you want the whole piece.

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