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Group and Summarize Data in a String

 
birt(52) record split(3) summarize by group(1)

Problem description & analysis

There is a SURVERY table in the database. It has two fields – QID and ANSWERS, as shown below:

QID

ANSWERS

1

A|B|A|C|D|E|A|E|C|D

2

A|C|E|D|A|E|D|B|E|D

3

C|D|E|A|B|C|A|C|E|A

4

E|E|B|A|D|B|C|A|B|D

5

D|A|C|B|E|A|B|D|D|A

6

A|C|A|C|C|E|D|B|E|C

7

E|B|A|A|A|B|A|C|D|D

8

B|C|D|C|C|E|C|A|C|A

9

B|C|A|E|E|B|A|A|D|E

We are trying to group each ANSWERS value and sum members in each group. Below is the expected result:

QID

ANSWER

NUM

1

A

3

1

B

1

1

C

2

1

D

2

1

E

2

2

A

2

2

B

1

…

…

…

Solution

We write the following script p1.dfx in esProc:

A

1

=connect("demo")

2

=A1.query@x("SELECT *   FROM SURVEY")

3

=A2.news(ANSWERS.split("|");QID,~:ANSWER)

4

=A3.group(QID,ANSWER;count(~):NUM)

Explanation:

A1  Connect to demo database.

A2  Perform SQL, return query result as a table sequence, and automatically close database connection.

A3  Loop through each row of A2’s table sequence. Split each ANSWERS into a sequence by the vertical line "|" and generate a row for each member. The row consists of two columns. The first column is QID, and the second one, named ANSERE, is the current member (represented by ~) of the split sequence,

A4  Group A3’s table sequence by QID and ANSWERE and count rows in each group.

Read How to Call an SPL Script in BIRT to learn about the method of integrating the SPL script into BIRT.

Q & A Collection

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48193324/how-to-split-a-string-into-an-array-of-characters-in-birt


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