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Semicolon-Separated Values

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Semicolon-Separated Values

container.array.semicolon_separated

List separated by semicolon: value1;value2;value3. Common in European CSV exports (where comma is decimal separator). RECURSIVE INFERENCE: Samples elements and infers common type, returns LIST<inferred_type>.

Domain container›array
Casts to VARCHAR
Scope Universal

Try it

CLI 
$ finetype infer -i "apple;banana;cherry"
→ container.array.semicolon_separated

DuckDB

Detect 
SELECT finetype('apple;banana;cherry');
-- → 'container.array.semicolon_separated'
Cast expression 
CAST({col} AS VARCHAR)
Safe cast pipeline 
-- Normalise and cast in one step
SELECT TRY_CAST(finetype_cast(my_column) AS VARCHAR) AS clean_value
FROM my_table
WHERE finetype(my_column) = 'container.array.semicolon_separated';

Decompose

STRING_SPLIT({col}, ';')

JSON Schema

finetype schema container.array.semicolon_separated 
{
  "$id": "https://noon.sh/schemas/container.array.semicolon_separated",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "description": "List separated by semicolon: value1;value2;value3. Common in European CSV exports (where comma is decimal separator).\nRECURSIVE INFERENCE: Samples elements and infers common type, returns LIST<inferred_type>.",
  "examples": [
    "apple;banana;cherry",
    "1,5;2,3;4,7"
  ],
  "pattern": "^[^;]+(;[^;]+)*$",
  "title": "Semicolon-Separated Values",
  "type": "string"
}

Examples

apple;banana;cherry1,5;2,3;4,7

Also known as

semicolon_list

Types in container