1.3.7.7 Length Profiler

The Length Profiler analyzes data values in any number of attributes and measures their length in number of characters.

Use the Length Profiler as a simple way of finding whether or not there are any values in an attribute with an inappropriate length.

The following table describes the configuration options:

Configuration Description

Inputs

Specify any String attributes that you want to measure for length.

Options

None.

Outputs

Describes any data attribute or flag attribute outputs.

Data Attributes

None.

Flags

The following flag is output:

  • [Attribute Name].CharLength: indicates the number of characters in the attribute. Possible values are the Number of characters.

The following table describes the statistics produced by the profiler. Note that each attribute is shown in a separate tab in the Results Browser.

Statistic Description

Value

.The value found.

Count

The number of times the value occurs in the attribute

%

The percentage of records analyzed with the value in the attribute.

Example

In this example, the CU_ACCOUNT attribute on a table of Customer records is measured for its length.

The summary view:

Length Count % (desc)

13

332

16.5

12

304

15,1

14

293

14.6

15

243

11.9

11

217

10.8

16

197

9.8

10

136

6.8

17

103

5.1

9

60

3.0

18

44

2.2

19

20

1.0

8

13

0.6

20

11

0.5

7

10

0.5

21

9

0.4

6

6

0.3

22

4

0.2

The drill down view:

CU_ACCOUNT CU_ACCOUNT.CharLength

00-23603-JD

11

00-23615-PB

11

00-23624-PB

11

00-23631-JD

11

00-23642-SH

11

00-23658-SH

11

00-23667-SH

11

00-23675-SH

11