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Preceding Load Is Elegant: Masters Summit For Qlikview

A preceding load is an elegant way to script parsing input like a number of key:value pairs from live data. The entire script to parse the input into fields populated with their matching values is simple and elegant. Now a chart can be built easily from the parsed data.

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Preceding Load Is Elegant: Masters Summit For Qlikview

A preceding load is an elegant way to script parsing input like a number of key:value pairs from live data. The entire script to parse the input into fields populated with their matching values is simple and elegant. Now a chart can be built easily from the parsed data.

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Nag Dhall
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PRECEDING LOAD IS ELEGANT


AUG 26, 2014 LEAVE A COMMENT
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data:
"" #$ %eneric Load to trans&ose 'ey to (ield
%eneric L)*+ ,ec-d, 'ey, .alue
/
"" 0$ Se&arate key 1 value
L)*+
,ec-d,
su!ield2Pair,3:3,45 as 'ey,
su!ield2Pair,3:3,25 as .alue
/
"" 2$ Break out each key:value &air
L)*+
,ec-d,
su!ield2-n&ut,3,35 as Pair
/
"" 4$ Load the ra6 -n&ut
L)*+ 7, ,ecNo25 as ,ec-d -NL-NE 8
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Name:Socks, Model:Mens Casual, Stock:0, Color:Black
Name:Pants, Error: No attriutes !ound
9 2delimiter is 3:35
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