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1 CSE 2337 Chapter 7 Organizing Data. 2 Overview Import unstructured data Concatenation Parse Create Excel Lists.

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1 1 CSE 2337 Chapter 7 Organizing Data

2 2 Overview Import unstructured data Concatenation Parse Create Excel Lists

3 3 CSV Files –Comma Separated Values –aka Comma Delimited files –Can easily import into Excel –Must know where you’re going with imported data

4 4 Concatenate Combines values in a range of cells into one text item in a new cell =CONCATENATE(text1,text2,…) Can have multiple arguments

5 5 Example

6 6 Left and Right May be used to remove incorrect entries RIGHT function –Returns last character(s) in a text string, based on number of characters specified –=RIGHT(text,num_chars) LEFT function –Extracts characters from the beginning or “left side” of a text string –=LEFT(text,num_chars)

7 7 Right Example

8 8 Trim TRIM function –Removes all spaces in a text string except for the single spaces between words –=TRIM(text)

9 9 Trim

10 10 Finding Characters FIND function –Returns the starting position of one text value within another text value –Case sensitive –=FIND(find_text,within_text,start_num) SEARCH function –Does same thing as FIND function, but is not case sensitive

11 11 Find

12 12 Other Text Functions

13 13 Other Text Functions


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