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Whitespace-Separated Values

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Whitespace-Separated Values

container.array.whitespace_separated

List separated by spaces or tabs: value1 value2 value3. Example: "one two three" or "1 2 3 4 5". 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.whitespace_separated

DuckDB

Detect 
SELECT finetype('apple banana cherry');
-- → 'container.array.whitespace_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.whitespace_separated';

Decompose

STRING_SPLIT(TRIM({col}), '\s+')

JSON Schema

finetype schema container.array.whitespace_separated 
{
  "$id": "https://noon.sh/schemas/container.array.whitespace_separated",
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "description": "List separated by spaces or tabs: value1 value2 value3. Example: \"one two three\" or \"1 2 3 4 5\".\nRECURSIVE INFERENCE: Samples elements and infers common type, returns LIST<inferred_type>.",
  "examples": [
    "apple banana cherry",
    "1 2 3 4 5",
    "red\tgreen\tblue"
  ],
  "pattern": "^[^\\s]+(\\s+[^\\s]+)*$",
  "title": "Whitespace-Separated Values",
  "type": "string"
}

Examples

apple banana cherry1 2 3 4 5red green blue

Also known as

space_separatedspace_list

Types in container