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Data Cleaning

Namaya
6 - Meteoroid

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!

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championerik
5 - Atom

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!  

OTrieger
12 - Quasar

@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.

Namaya
6 - Meteoroid

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.

Namaya
6 - Meteoroid

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!

binuacs
21 - Polaris

@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 

Namaya
6 - Meteoroid

Let me try this approach. Thanks!

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