This process shows examples for the extended operations for nominal values coming with one of the next RapidMiner updates (5.0.011 or 5.1.000). The operations are performed with the operator "Generate Attributes" and can be used directly within the expressions for the new attributes. The supported functions include Number to String [str(x)], String to Number [parse(text)], Substring [cut(text, start, length)], Concatenation [concat(text1, text2, text3...)], Replace [replace(text, what, by)],...