Maintaining Special Characters throughout the workflow is hard and Output differs

Question

Experts help!

If you notice there is a minor difference in the dash sign used in the input. It is getting changed in my Output.

Need help to get data same as input.

Input:

Management - Into the

Management – Out

Output:

Management - Into the

Management - Out

caltang · Answer

Awesome! Yes, V_WString is what you need. It's tricky sometimes, gets the best of us. Glad you solved it and thanks for letting us know!

Subha_Rajamani · Answer

Hi Caltang, Thank you for your solution!
My issue is not related to Replacing the special characters. I want the characters as it is in the Input.

Solution arrived:

I mistakenly changed the data type before formula tool in my Workflow from V_WString to VString.

Due to that the special characters got changed to "Dash" instead of "Long Dash."

Thanks to Everyone for sharing some insights on this issue!!!

Sameer_Kanade8810 · Answer

Hi You could create a text input with the below data.

Field 1Management— Out

Field 2 Management - Out

And use the apend tool to replace the Management— Out to  Management - Out.

try this out if it helps.