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2.4.14

Padding left and right

5:00 PM  

Padding is the action of adding 0 to the left or the right of a text value until you reach a certain string lenght.

The padding function can be useful in OpenRefine if you lost leading zero while importing or transforming your data.

Of couse you can hack the example below to add letters or any other type of charactere.

padding left up to four digit
"0000"[0,4-value.length()] + value

padding right up to four digit
value + "0000"[0,4-value.length()]


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28.4.12

Field format change accidentally to Number and how to add leading 0

11:01 AM  , , , ,

By inadvertence one can transform quickly a field containing number in a text format to number format. This mainly happen during the project creation (import) or when creating new column. This conversion to number can lead to a loss of data like leading 0. Here is how to get them back and avoid this to happen again.

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