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Filter by amount of Characters

Lean_Sawko
7 - Meteor

Hi all,

I have a column with currencies (always with 3 characters e.g "USD") but some wrong data too in it with more characters. What I want to do is to change this last one to BLANK (""). I found that the most accurate way to do it it's by the string length. 

 

Any formula idea of how to do it? 

 

Thanks

 

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apathetichell
20 - Arcturus

Is the currency string always the first 3 characters - if so left([fieldname],3) will work

echuong1
Alteryx Alumni (Retired)

You can use a conditional statement:

 

if Length([Field1]) = 3
then [Field1]
else null()
endif

 

If the values are always going to be the first three characters, you can also use a left() function to clean this.

 

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