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Unknown Special Character

michaeljones1
6 - Meteoroid

Trying to find and replace the symbol 2019-08-28_14-58-28.png(have to paste a photo of it because iusing RegEx on a fixed delimited file that I am working through with a client. The symbol referenced is at the beginning of some lines within the report they are using and I can't seem to find the coding for it anywhere. Thanks for any help!

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geraldo
13 - Pulsar

Hi

 

use notepad ++ and open the file

 

 

and use this option.

may help resolve to identify which ascii of control is

 

clipboard_image_3.png

 

 

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michaeljones1
6 - Meteoroid

Thanks Geraldo. It came back with FF - Form Feed so I was able to pop in \f to the RegEx and she's a beaut.  

 

Cheers,

Michael

Thableaus
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

Hi @michaeljones1 

 

If it's at the beginning of your lines, you could do something like this

 

REGEX_Replace([Field], "^[^A-Z0-9]*", "") 

 

Cheers,

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