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Whats the best way to replace a group of text in a column with blanks?

zenSMP
7 - Meteor

Hi All,

 

As per title, whats the best way to replace a group of text in column with blank.

 

Example in the attached excel and photo below I would like to replace 3M/Nokia/Cisco in input with Blank and have it shown as output.

 

I understand formula, regex and find a replace may work but am wondering how would you guys write it.

Example the below may work but is it graceful or scalable.

TRIM(
REPLACE(

REPLACE(
REPLACE([Input],'3M','')

,'Nokia','')

,'Cisco',''))

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Felipe_Ribeir0
16 - Nebula

Hi @zenSMP 

 

Here it is, with this expression you will be able to remove the first word of each row:

 

^(.*?)(?<=\s)

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Felipe_Ribeir0
16 - Nebula

And with this one, you will be able to remove specific words, like 3M/Nokia/Cisco:

 

Felipe_Ribeir0_0-1669133153560.png

 

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