#61 — Split Words as Individual Characters

Judith-Excel-Sharing - Sep 10 - - Dev Community

Problem description & analysis:

An Excel table has a column of words:

original table
Task: Split each of these words as individual characters and concatenate them into a column, as the following shows:

desired table

Solution:

Enter the following formula in SPL XLL:
=spl("=E@1(?).conj(~.split())",A1:A3)

As shown in the picture below:

result table with code entered

Explanation:

E@1 converts the data range to a one-dimensional sequence. ~ represents the current member; split()splits each character from each word; conj() concatenates the characters.


The example was originally on StackOverflow. Compare the conventional solutions with the SPL approach to get the efficiency of SPL.

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