Semicolon-Separated Values

container.array.semicolon_separated

List separated by semicolon: value1;value2;value3. Common in European CSV exports (where comma is decimal separator).

Domain

container

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

Expression

STRING_SPLIT({col}, ';')

JSON Schema

finetype schema container.array.semicolon_separated

{
  "$id": "https://meridian.online/schemas/container.array.semicolon_separated",
  "$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",
  "x-finetype-broad-type": "VARCHAR",
  "x-finetype-transform": "CAST({col} AS VARCHAR)"
}

Examples

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

Aliases

semicolon_list