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Remove Trailing and Leading Spaces in Field Names

poles1c
8 - Asteroid

Hi,

 

I have a dataset of 430 fields, here is an excerpt :

 

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I want to trim leading and trailing spaces from my field names. A simple transpose and then back to cross-tab does not work as I will lost all of my field names & vales. Help?

 

Thank you,

 

Courtney

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Bob_Blackey
11 - Bolide

You can use the Dynamic rename tool in the Developer tool set.

 

For rename mode choose - formula

Select all the fields you wish to rename (use the all button)

Then the Expression would be Trim([_CurrentFieldName_])

 

 

This tool can have two inputs but the bottom input is not needed in this use case.

 

poles1c
8 - Asteroid

Thanks!

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