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Description

Returns the ISO-3166-1 alpha-2 continent code from any continent identification.

How does it work in the search window?

This operation needs only one argument:

Argument

Data type

Country mandatory

string

The data type of the new column is string.

Example

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The examples in this article use values in a data table generated

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from the following CSV file.

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titleDownload CSV file here
urlhttps://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1W9QREhFyQ60gp6E5Y08RLBtmHTpGT0Up

If you want to try the example

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for yourself, download the file and upload it to your domain by clicking

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Data upload

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in the navigation

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panel. Name the new

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table my.upload.geolocation.data

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and select Current date

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as Date parsing type. Learn more about uploading data in Uploading log files.

After receiving the confirmation message, you can access the table

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from the

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Finder, selecting my → upload → geolocation → data. When you upload data from a file, all the information is included in a single column

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called message. To split the values into different columns, you can use

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the Split operation. Click Toggle Query Editor in the search window toolbar and paste the following LINQ query to save time:

from my.upload.geolocation.data
select split(message, ";", 2) as continentName

We want to get the ISO-3166-1 alpha-2 continent codes corresponding to the continent names in our continentName column, so we click Create column and select the ISO-3166-1 Continent Alpha-2 Code operation. Select continentName as the argument and assign a name to the new column - let's call it continentalpha2.

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Use the operator select... as...  and add the operation syntax to create the new column. The syntax is as follows:

  • continentalpha2(string)

Example

(warning) Note that you must have uploaded the following CSV file to your Devo domain as explained above to try out this example.

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titleDownload CSV file here
urlhttps://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1W9QREhFyQ60gp6E5Y08RLBtmHTpGT0Up

Copy the following LINQ script and try the above example on the my.upload.geolocation.data table. 

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from my.upload.geolocation.data
select split(message, ";", 2) as continentName
select continentalpha2(continentName) as continentalpha2