Replace values in Tables with Table¶
In the standard library there exist four nodes which perform a search and replace of values among the elements in Tables. Of the four nodes, one operates on single Table while the second operates on multiple Tables. The third and fourth are the same but instead of a GUI configuration, they take another table as configuration. See below.
In the configuration of the nodes one has to specify the columns in the Tables which will be regarded during the execution of the node. The node works with string, unicode, integer, and float values.
For string and unicode columns the search and replace expressions may be
regular expressions. Here, it is possible to use ()-grouping in the search
expression to reuse the match of the expression within the parentheses in the
replacement expression. In the regular expression for the replacement use
\\1
(or higher numbers) to insert matches.
As an example let’s say that you have an input table with a column containing
the strings x
, y
, and z
. If you enter the search expression
(.*)
and the replacement expression \\1_new
the output will be the
strings x_new
, y_new
, and z_new
.
For the expression table (for the ‘with Table’ versions) it should it have the following structure:: +————————+——————————+ | Find column | Replacement column | +========================+==============================+ | Expression to find 1 | Replacement for expression 1 | +——————————————————-+ | Expression to find 2 | Replacement for expression 2 | +————————+——————————+ | … | … | +————————+——————————+
-
class
node_table_value_search_replace.
TablesValueSearchReplaceWithTable
[source]¶ Inputs: - expressions : table
Expressions
- data : [table]
Table Data
Outputs: - data : [table]
Table with replaced values
Configuration: - Column to replace values in
Select in which to perform replacement
- Column with search expressions
Select which column contains search expressions
- Column with replace expressions
Select which column contains replacements
- Text replacement only (using regex)
Perform regex replacements in string columns, i.e., columns with types text and bytes, other columns are ignored. Disable this option to replace full values, without using regex across all types of columns.
- Ignore case
Ignore case when searching