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PowerCenter - Regular Expressions

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I got the following regular expression:

=([^"]*)

Basically I want to extract a value between = and " (example: "City=Paris", output "Paris"). But for some reason this expression wont work in PowerCenter.

You got any idea how to implement it?

Thank you

posted Nov 6, 2014 by Sachin

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You can try this

REG_EXTRACT('"City=Paris"','(.*\w+=)(\w+)(".*)',2)

This basically breaks up the string in three groups of characters and returns the second group.

answer Nov 7, 2014 by Shweta Singh
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