SplitWords / String Layer

Split strings into lists of words using whitespace as delimiter. Similar to Python's str.split(), R's strsplit(x, '\s+'), or Rust's split_whitespace(). Creates a list column containing the separated words.

Handles multiple types of whitespace:

Spaces
Tabs
Line breaks
Other Unicode whitespace characters

Common applications:

Text tokenization for NLP
Processing space-separated data
Extracting words from sentences
Parsing log file entries
Breaking down full names
Analyzing word frequencies
Processing structured text data

Note: Consecutive whitespace characters are treated as a single delimiter, and leading/trailing whitespace is ignored.

Table

Select

column

The string column to split. Examples of input and results:

'hello world' → ['hello', 'world']
'John Doe Smith' → ['John', 'Doe', 'Smith']
' spaces trim ' → ['spaces', 'trim']
'line1\nline2\tword' → ['line1', 'line2', 'word']

AsColumn

name

Name for the new column. If not provided, the system generates a unique name. If AsColumn matches an existing column, the existing column is replaced. The name should follow valid column naming conventions.