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remove ascii characters and dots

umairah
8 - Asteroid

Hi,

 

I want to remove these ascii characters and the dots from the data. Is there a way?

 

characters remove.PNG

 

Sample data will be attached upon request. Really appreciate the help.

 

Regards,

Umairah 

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vizAlter
12 - Quasar

@umairah — Can you attach your file for input and desired output, both?

 

umairah
8 - Asteroid

Hi @vizAlter ,

 

I will attached the sample data for you to review. The desired output that I want is all the ascii and dots to be remove such as below:

 

1.2.2
Rule of law 3.5.7 85
88
1.2.3 Cost of redundancy dismissal, salary weeks 20.8 5.2 Innovation linkages
5.2.1 University/Industry research collaboration 38.8 73
State of cluster development

 

MarqueeCrew
20 - Arcturus
20 - Arcturus

Regex_replace([text],"[^ -~]",'')

 

 cheers,

 

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vizAlter
12 - Quasar

@umairah — Try this solution:

 

vizAlter_0-1601346986326.png

 

umairah
8 - Asteroid

Hi @MarqueeCrew ,

 

Thank you, it worked.

 

Regards,

Umairah

umairah
8 - Asteroid

Hi @vizAlter ,

 

I test the formula and it work as well. Thank you.

 

regards,

Umairah

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