I received a table of data, and in that table is a field with latitude and longitude coordinates in one field.
An example is: 45.4000/-122.700
I added two fields, latitude and longitude.
Using field calculator I can successfully extract values after the '/' into the longitude field so that it is populated only with -122.700.
The expression is:
!Latitude_Longitude![!Latitude_Longitude!.rindex('/')+1:]
I am not able to extract the values for latitude so that the latitude field will be populated just with 45.4000. I can also not perform this by using an exact number of characters, as the table of coordinates can have anywhere from 2 to 5 decimal places. Any help on how to extract all values to the left of the '/' would be appreciated.
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The easiest way is to use a split() function with the split character. Switch to the python interpreter first. Because they are strings, convert them to floats as well.
!latitude! = float(!field!.split('/')[0]) for the left side
!longitude' = float(!field!.split('/')[1]) for the right side
The easiest way is to use a split() function with the split character. Switch to the python interpreter first. Because they are strings, convert them to floats as well.
!latitude! = float(!field!.split('/')[0]) for the left side
!longitude' = float(!field!.split('/')[1]) for the right side