Hey guys. Quick one. I use the :converted to number: quite a lot to clean a field that has names and numbers at the same input, but how about the other way around?
I just found myself with a field with thousands of entries, of which quite a few have names and numbers in the same field (example John Smith 123456789, where I need only the name). For now, I just tried several “find & replace” or several “split by”, but that looks awfull both in performance and organization… Is there a “converted” to letters that can just ignore numbers?
I’m looking in to regex, something like \d+/g, “” ?
Hi there, @vitor370… I’m guessing this won’t be what you want, and it would probably be helpful if you can show a sample of the actual data your are talking about, but a simple find and replace where the find is a regex pattern of [0-9] and the replace is empty should do the trick of ignoring (removing) the numbers. Is that what you are trying to do?
I’ve misunderstood that. Your find & replace activating regex worked great! I had never noticed the regex option on the Find & replace. I was trying extract with regex LMAO. I need to sleep.
Anyways, it worked! Thank you very much for your time, mate. Cheers!
Cool… glad to hear it worked for you. Oh, and you might want to add the :trimmed operator to the end of the expression to get rid of any unwanted spaces.
