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need to check 2 values in Contains function

sakshim
8 - Asteroid

I have a date in a format 

2024-12-15T04:32:14Z

I want to Replace T with space and Z with no space in one go hence trying to use Contains as below:

 

if contains([creationdate],("T" or "Z")) then
replace([creationdate],"T"," ") and replace([creationdate],"Z","")

else [Creationdate]

endif

 

but it doesnt seems to be right, Can I request for help

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alexnajm
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

You need to separate the contains statement into two:

if contains([creationdate],”T”) OR contains([creationdate],”Z”) THEN…

 

But also you can't do two replacements like that (that I am aware of)... so you need to combine those into one using ReplaceChar

if contains([creationdate],”T”) OR contains([creationdate],”Z”) THEN
ReplaceChar([creationdate],"TZ","")

else [Creationdate]

endif

 

binuacs
21 - Polaris

@sakshim another option using regex_replace

REGEX_REPLACE(REGEX_REPLACE([YourField], "T", " "), "Z", "")
mark-spain
8 - Asteroid

Here is a similar answer to @binuacs using a single Regex_Replace() function and capture groups. 

 

I have specified a pattern for the date and time format in your data, including the "T" and "Z" characters and have used the round brackets to create 2 capture groups, which I return in the replacement part of the function, specifying a space between part 1 and 2.

REGEX_Replace([Field1], "(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})T(\d{2}:\d{2}:\d{2})Z", "$1 $2")

 

sakshim
8 - Asteroid

wonderful!!! many thanks to all of you for taking time and explaining

sakshim
8 - Asteroid

This is mainly I was looking out for

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