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REGEX, Trim everything after the first punctuation

wonka1234
10 - Fireball

Hi,

 

sample string:  This string could also contain _ , . , - . I want to trim everything after the punctuation.

ACF2.SRP.XML

 

What im getting:

ACF2SRPXML

 

my formula:

Trim(REGEX_Replace([FileName], "\W", ""))

 

What im expecting

ACF2

 

 

 

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Matthew
11 - Bolide

this should work:

REGEX_Replace([Field1], '([\w_]*)|.*', '$1')

 

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gautiergodard
13 - Pulsar

hey @wonka1234 

Here is also a non-regex way to do it

gautiergodard_0-1666971876288.png

 

DataNath
17 - Castor

Could also use RegEx in parse mode with the following which will just take everything up to the first non-word (or underscore) character:

 

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binuacs
20 - Arcturus

@wonka1234 One way of doing this

binuacs_0-1666996088889.png

 

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