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Regex Special Characters

jonathangonzales
8 - Asteroid

I'm pulling in data and loading to a table in our data warehouse. The table will not accept special characters and I am trying to figure out a way to have Alteryx remove/update special characters. With the example below I would like for it to come out as Thai Kitchen.

 

Thai Kitchenâ®

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MarqueeCrew
20 - Arcturus
20 - Arcturus

@jonathangonzales ,

 

 

How about:

 

REGEX_Replace([Field1], "[^ -~]", '')

 

It will eliminate things not in the ascii range of BLANK to TILDE

 

Cheers,

 

Mark

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vizAlter
12 - Quasar

Hi @jonathangonzales — Here we go:

 

 

REGEX_Replace([Field1], "[^a-zA-Z0-9 .-]", ' ')

 

 

^ sign in [ ] in front of given characters will look for other character to remove them.

That means this RegEx will keep a to z, A to Z, 0 to 9, space, decimal, hyphen only

 

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