22.7.11

Remove or replace a specific character in a column

12:00 PM  , , ,

You want to remove a space or a specific character from your column like the sign # before some number.


2 expressions does the same job:
  • value.split("#").join("")
    • This splits the value at every space ("#") and joins them with no space ("")

  • replace(value, “#”, “”)
    this look for every # ("#") sign and replace it with no space ("")

3 comments:

  1. cosminJuly 23, 2011 at 5:19 PM

    Hi, great Blog - do you know how I can remove or replace this html expression?

    a href="http://www.tweetdeck.com" rel="nofollow">TweetDeck</a

    I just need the "TweetDeck" information.

    Thanks

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  2. magdmartinJuly 23, 2011 at 6:04 PM

    I suppose that you column contains different url, so I will do that in 3 steps.

    1.Split your cell content based on > sign and in two columns (see this post for more details http://googlerefine.blogspot.com/2011/06/split-cell-content-into-multiple-column.html)

    2. Remove the column containing a href="http://www.tweetdeck.com" rel="nofollow"

    3. On the remaining column run the following expression: replace(value, “”, “”)

    2. run the following expression replace(value, “</a”, “”)

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  3. cosminJuly 29, 2011 at 9:10 AM

    Thanks

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