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Regex replace only the 1st character

terrellchong
8 - Asteroid

Hi, let say I have a value that is like this

-112324-A

 

How do I use Regex replace to make the result look like this?

112324-A

Thanks in advance

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atcodedog05
22 - Nova
22 - Nova

Hi @terrellchong 

 

Regex formula would be

 

 

REGEX_Replace([Field1], ".(.*)", "$1")

 

 

Workflow:

atcodedog05_0-1642409873641.png

 

Hope this helps : )

atcodedog05
22 - Nova
22 - Nova

Hi @terrellchong 

 

You can also do it without regex. The below method might give better performance.

 

Workflow:

atcodedog05_0-1642410007416.png

 

Hope this helps : )

 

OllieClarke
15 - Aurora
15 - Aurora

Hi @terrellchong just adding other options to the two which @atcodedog05 has given, but you can use the substring function here as well

 

Substring([field],1)

 

 

OllieClarke_0-1642416859465.png

 

edit: I did a performance comparison of the 3 methods, and I would avoid using RegEx here, but there isn't much between using Substring() and Right()

OllieClarke_0-1642417126080.png

 

 

atcodedog05
22 - Nova
22 - Nova

@OllieClarke 

 

yup, I keep tending to forget Substring() function should start using it more 😅

 

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