Split

Returns one of the components of a field’s string output after splitting it with a delimiter. Common use cases for this method include discarding unwanted data from a field’s output, and splitting output from one field into separate fields.

Parameters

The following parameters are in the computed field’s global Method parameter:

key	value	description
id (required)	split
source_id (required)	a field id in the current config	The id of the field to split into substrings.
separator (required)	string	The separator to use in the split.
index	integer	The zero-based index of the substring to return after the split. If unspecified, returns all the split substrings as an array.

Examples

The following example shows splitting a field’s output to extract a first and last name.

Config

JSON

{
  "fields": [
    {
      "id": "_driver_name_raw",
      "anchor": "name of driver",
      "method": {
        "id": "label",
        "position": "below"
      }
    }
  ],
  "computed_fields": [
    {
      "id": "driver_name_last",
      "method": {
        "id": "split",
        "source_id": "_driver_name_raw",
        "separator": " ",
        "index": 1
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "driver_name_first",
      "method": {
        "id": "split",
        "source_id": "_driver_name_raw",
        "separator": " ",
        "index": 0
      }
    }
  ],
}

Example document

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Output

JSON

{
  "_driver_name_raw": {
    "type": "string",
    "value": "Petar Petrov"
  },
  "driver_name_last": {
    "value": "Petrov",
    "type": "string"
  },
  "driver_name_first": {
    "value": "Petar",
    "type": "string"
  }
}
`