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How to remove "?" in colunm

TheSAguy
7 - Meteor

Hi,

 

I have an excel file and in my address 2 field I sometimes have the character ? that I want to remove.

I think because "?" is a special character, I'm not able to "catch" it.

 

My workflow:

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Data:

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Thanks.

 

 

 

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DataNath
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

@TheSAguy under the 'Replace Found Text With Value' configuration, you've selected your [Word_To_Find] field instead of [Replace_With] so you're just replacing ? with ? at the moment.

 

Alternatively you could just try using a Formula tool with an expression like:

 

if [ADDR_LINE2] = '?' then null() else [ADDR_LINE2] endif

binu_acs
21 - Polaris

@TheSAguy You need to mention at least a space in the replace field

 

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Luke_C
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

Alternative formula on Address 2:

 

Replace([ADDR_LINE2],'?','')

 

Assumes valid addresses don't have a question mark in them, which I think is a fair assumption. 

TheSAguy
7 - Meteor

Thanks for the feedback

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