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Regular expressions in the load script

Regular expressions (or “regex”) are a developer’s best friend, they offer an extremely powerful way to search for or replace patterns in strings of text.

This post assumes that you already know how what regular expressions are and how to construct them. If this is not the case, then you may want to read up a little bit here before proceeding. Trust me, if you regularly have to deal with validating and cleaning input data then regular expressions are well worth your time.

Data validation and transformation using regular expressions, download the example application

Unfortunately, QlikView does not (yet*) natively support regex, however, there is a way to use regular expressions in your QlikView load script: VBScript. read more »