I have a user parameter getting a string of comma separated words. I would like to use that as items/arguments to filter whether or not a feature attribute contain one of those words.
It would be to be used on about 10,000 features eventually with maybe up to 5 different words
I can get the user parameter to a list, and then to an attribute, but I can't find a way to use those to filter my dataset, either using Like, In, or Contains
Any idea how this can be done?
It's basically to filter whether a path does or not contain some words
Best answer by takashi
Hi @ts_84 , I think the "Contain Regex" operator would help you.
StringReplacer: Replace every , (comma) within the parameter value with | (pipe). The resulting string can be interpreted as a regex "word1|word2|word3", which matches one of the words.
FeatureMerger: Merge the regex attribute to every feature read from CSV unconditionally.
Tester or TestFilter: Test if "_full_path" string contains a part that matches the regex, with the "Contain Regex" operator.
The attached screenshot illustrates an example of implementation.
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Hi @ts_84 , I think the "Contain Regex" operator would help you.
StringReplacer: Replace every , (comma) within the parameter value with | (pipe). The resulting string can be interpreted as a regex "word1|word2|word3", which matches one of the words.
FeatureMerger: Merge the regex attribute to every feature read from CSV unconditionally.
Tester or TestFilter: Test if "_full_path" string contains a part that matches the regex, with the "Contain Regex" operator.
The attached screenshot illustrates an example of implementation.
Hi @ts_84 , I think the "Contain Regex" operator would help you.
StringReplacer: Replace every , (comma) within the parameter value with | (pipe). The resulting string can be interpreted as a regex "word1|word2|word3", which matches one of the words.
FeatureMerger: Merge the regex attribute to every feature read from CSV unconditionally.
Tester or TestFilter: Test if "_full_path" string contains a part that matches the regex, with the "Contain Regex" operator.
The attached screenshot illustrates an example of implementation.
Thank you @Takashi Iijima , this works perfectly.
It's quite interesting to see Regex can work so simply like that too. And I didn't know a simple '1' would merge feature so easily either. Thanks for your valuable input
