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Parse out the first 3 characters

wonka1234
10 - Fireball

Hi,

 

I am trying to parse out the first 3 charcters of a string.

 

ie NBA100 , NBA48B, NBA50, should now be 100 and 48B, 50.

 

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DataNath
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

How does this look @wonka1234? This will be fully dynamic, in case your strings don't always begin with 'NBA'.

 

REGEX_Replace([Full], '.{3}(.*)', '$1')

 

DataNath_0-1657554935052.png

 

messi007
15 - Aurora
15 - Aurora

@wonka1234,

 

Please see below :

 

messi007_0-1657555029509.png

 

Attached the workflow,

Regards,

binu_acs
21 - Polaris

@wonka1234 one way of doing this

TrimLeft([Field],'NBA')

 

binuacs_0-1657555030303.png

 

binu_acs
21 - Polaris

@wonka1234 also you can use the below formula

Substring([Field],3,Length([Field]))

binuacs_0-1657557263511.png

 

 

dlesny
8 - Asteroid

Hi All

None of the answers quite matched my case so here is another way that suited me for parsing:

 

RegEx tool - Regular Expression - 

 

^(.{3})\s*

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