ISO-3166-1 Continent Name (continentname)

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Description

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

How does it work in the search window?

This operation needs only one argument:

Argument	Data type

Argument	Data type
Continent ^mandatory	string

The data type of the new column is string.

Example

We want to get the ISO-3166-1 alpha-2 continent names corresponding to the continent codes in our continentCode column, so we click Create column and select the ISO-3166-1 Continent Name operation. Select continentCode as the argument and assign a name to the new column - let's call it continentnameAlpha2.

You will see the following result:

How does it work in LINQ?

Use the operator select... as... and add the operation syntax to create the new column. This is the syntax of the ISO-3166-1 Continent Name operation:

continentname(string)

Example

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

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

from my.upload.geolocation.data
select split(message, ";", 3) as continentCode
select continentname(continentCode) as continentnameAlpha2