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how to trim left of a specific word

barb_mooney
5 - Atom

I have a column of data that looks like this

DIESEL TRUCKDISTRICT 1

TRAILERDISTRICT 10

TRIPAC BATTERYDISTRICT 11

TRIPAC DIESELDISTRICT 2

VP TRUCKDISTRICT 4

I want to remove everything to the left of the word "District"

 

for the life of me I cant figure out how to do this

 

Help please!

 

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ChrisTX
15 - Aurora

Try the RegEx tool.

 

Regular Expression:

(.*)(DISTRICT)(.*)

 

Output Method: Parse

ChrisTX
15 - Aurora

Or Regular Expression

(.*)(DISTRICT.*)

which gives this output:

 

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jsi
5 - Atom

My Excel brain told me to use the formula tool and below formula into a new field:

 

Right([Field1], Length([Field1])-(FindString([Field1], "DISTRICT")))

 

where field 1 contains your data

 

For RegEx mentioned by @ChrisTX it also worked using this : (.*)(DISTRICT.*) but I am still a bit unfamiliar with RegEx myself.

barb_mooney
5 - Atom

this worked perfectly

 

thank you!

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