textFormat function
The textFormat function returns the type of the strings in each row of the column.
Parameters
textFormat(column)
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column | The attribute from which we want to retrieve the type of each string. Its type must be nominal. The column parameter is mandatory. |
Example
The following example uses the Bike Sales dataset.
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In this example, we have manually updated certain values within the Age Group attribute. We have added:
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Rename the Var_19 attribute to textFormat, then type the following formula: As you can see, the function has returned ‘nominal’ for all the values except:
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