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Removing Special Character "(c)"

Franzil
8 - Asteroid

Good day everyone,

 

I'm filtering previous queries re this specific problem but I can't find anything that will best match to my problem. I want to remove the special character at the end of my data specifically "(c)"

 

Sample data: HEFCL_1234567890_20230103 (c)

Desired Output: HEFCL_1234567890_20230103 

 

It tried some of formula in formula tool however, I did not get the desired output.

 

Samples:

Formula: REGEX_Replace([Comments/ ACES Loan number], "[^\w\s]",'')

Output: HEFCL_1234567890_20230103 c

 

Formula: REGEX_Replace([Comments/ ACES Loan number], "[^x20-x7e]+",'')

Output: HEFCL_1234567890_20230103c

 

Sample: REGEX_Replace([Comments/ ACES Loan number], "[^a-zA-Z0-9 -]", '')

Output: HEFCL123456789020230103 c

 

I also tried  the SUBSTRING, however it will also delete the last digit of my data when the data does not have a special character of "(c)"

 

Sample: Substring([Comments/ ACES Loan number],0,length([Comments/ ACES Loan number])-1)

Before: HEFCL_1234567890_20230103

Output: HEFCL_1234567890_2023010

 

I want an output that will remove the "(c)" without compromising other data that are already correct.

 

 

 

Thanks in advance!

Franzil

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binu_acs
21 - Polaris

@Franzil  Try the Replace() function

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HomesickSurfer
12 - Quasar

Hi @Franzil 

 

Replace will work.

 

Or, have some fun with either Trim*, GetWord or ReverseString...

 

TrimRight([Field1],' (c)')

 

GetWord([Field1], 0)

 

ReverseString(GetWord(ReverseString([Field1]), 1))

Franzil
8 - Asteroid

@HomesickSurfer @binu_acs This is great, thank you so much :)

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