I have a sales column in my dataset that includes both a dollar sign and a period (e.g., '$320,000.00'). When I use the data cleaning tool and select 'Remove unwanted characters' with the punctuation checkbox, it removes both the dollar sign and the period. However, I only want to remove the dollar sign. It would be great if @Alteryx could allow users to specify which character they want to remove after selecting the punctuation checkbox. Thanks!
Is that Data in the string format? If yes, you could make use of a formular tool that would do something like: replace([column name], '$','')
Also you could use an Regex Tool for that!
@Namaya there is Ideas forum, you should post your request there as a new idea for enhancement for Alteryx.
As I do not see here any question I'm assuming that you know how to solve that issue.
I used the formula tool to achieve what I wanted but it was time consuming since there were multiple columns that needed similar approach. Thank you.
Let me reshare on the ideas forum. I did manage to navigate around it using the formula tool but the approach was time consuming. Thanks!
@Namaya If you want to apply the same function in multiple columns you can use the Multi-Field formula tool and use the ReplaceChar() fucntion
Let me try this approach. Thanks!