canonical

canonical(T.a: text, T.b: text) 🡒 T.c : text, process

Returns the canonical representative for each T.a value. The pairs (T.a, T.b) are interpreted as graph edges with T.a as the source and T.b as the destination.

Example:

table T = with
  [| as OldCode, as Replacement |]
  [| "x-00",  "ax-00" |]
  [| "x-01",  "ax-01" |]
  [| "x-02",  "ax-02" |]
  [| "ax-00", "ax-03" |]

T.NewCode = canonical(T.OldCode, T.Replacement)

show table "" a1c4 with
  T.OldCode
  T.Replacement
  T.NewCode

From a practical perspective, this process is intended to deal with code replacement (ex: SKU code replacement) as illustrated in the above example.

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