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Need Help Removing "-" character from names, but not from numbers in a combined string

User: "Aaron_21459"
Altair Community Member
Updated by Aaron_21459

Hello All

 

I am having difficulty trying to separate "-" from names while leaving it in for negative numbers.

 

The original file is a PDF which I can not get in any other format.

 

Occasionally a name is followed by a number with no space between them. I can split them to separate the name from the number until I run into a name that has a hyphen or a negative number.

 

Examples of data after I trap the Name and Reg Pay line as one trap to split later:

 

Header 1Header 2Header 3
Original stringNameNumber
Jane Doe 425.36Jane Doe425.36
Jane Smith-Doe 325.00Jane Smith-Doe- 325.00
Jane DoeDoe -170.15Jane Doe-170.15
Jane Smith-Doe852.15Jane Smith-Doe-852.15

 

As you can see, the top and middle rows works out fine, but the second and last row give me false negative numbers.

 

Original Data PDF Structure:

 

EENum     Name    

Loc           JobCode                                   Reg Pay               Overtime

 

Department          1234               Accounting

 

1234567     Jane Doe                                   425.36               12.25

99999         RP1234

1234568     Jane Smith-Doe                         325.00                0.00

99999         RP1234

1234569     Jane DoeDoe                              -170.15              10.52

99999         RP1234

1234570     Jane Smith-Doe852.15                                          5.25

 

It is rows like that last one that are throwing me doing a normal capture.

 

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Especially ones that let me trap the last row and split the Reg Pay out automatically.

 

I am using version 13.4 of Monarch

 

Thank you

 

Aaron

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