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RegEx Help - Trim to Specific Character

jeremyblaney
7 - Meteor

I have a field I need to trim, and it looks like RegEx will do the trick. However, I'm having trouble with the syntax. Here's my field info:

 

[FIELD ASSOCIATE ID]

CORP\XKLJFTU

EMEA\JFUIQLF

ASIA\JFITLFQ

LATAM\JTI8RKJK

 

I need to trim the portion in red (CORP, EMEA, etc.) so all I'm left with is the unique identifier following the slash. The portion in red is not a specific number of characters long. It will vary from time to time.

 

Any help would be much appreciated!

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patrick_digan
17 - Castor
17 - Castor

@jeremyblaney I would use a formula tool with this:

REGEX_Replace([FIELD ASSOCIATE ID],".*?\\","")

the . means any character, the * means repeated as many times, the ? makes it "non-greedy" (so that it stops at the first \), and the \\ means find a \ (since \ is a special character, you have to use the \ to escape the special character which happens to be the \ this time).

 

Hope that helps!

jeremyblaney
7 - Meteor

Perfect, thanks! The \\ was throwing me off. I was also able to split this into two columns by using the RegEx tool with this syntax: (.*?\\)(.*)

 

Thanks again!

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