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How to remove parentheses and their content from a string

bjemison
7 - Meteor

I am completely new at Alteryx (~2 weeks) and am still trying to get familiar with all of the tools. I have some data in the following format:

 

Product Name (Customer Info) Product Description

 

I am trying to get the following:

Product Name Product Description

 

I have seen a couple of other questions and comments posted and one user suggested the following formula:

Regex_Replace([Field1]," \(.*?\)","")

I tried doing this. I made sure to replace [Field1] with the actual name of the column I'm trying to alter. The data preview shows output how I am expecting it (albiet without the space between Product Name and Product Description). However when I run the workflow it errors out completely and I get the error message below:

 

The field "" is not contained in the record. (Expression #1)

Regex_Replace([Field1]), " \(.*?\)","")

 

Does anyone know what I am doing wrong. 

 

 

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CharlieS
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

EDIT: @jdunkerley79 addressed the real issue. Nice work.

jdunkerley79
ACE Emeritus
ACE Emeritus

You need to create a new field in the formula tool to store the output (or select to overwrite Field1)

2018-11-28_22-08-05.png

 

Select a column or Add A column in the shown drop down and error should go away

 

The expression you have should produce the output you want then I think.

 

bjemison
7 - Meteor

This did the trick. I needed to specify the new output column. Thank you so much for taking the time to answer!

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