I think you want to keep your non english character as well (in other words you only want to remove punctuations like ./- etc) Your best bet is to use replace function if you want to consider non english characters. The only drawback is that you will have to specific each character individually. For example: if no dot (.) is desired in output, insert dot as given below (same thing for the dash). I'm no expert on this but I thought this may give you some ideas..
Replace(Replace([F1],".",""),"-","") Answer from fomenter on community.alteryx.com
Regex Special Characters
I'm pulling in data and loading to a table in our data warehouse. The table will not accept special characters and I am trying to figure out a way to have Alteryx remove/update special characters. With the example below I would like for it to come out as Thai Kitchen. Thai Kitchenâ® More on community.alteryx.com
Regex to remove special characters
This gets rid of all characters that are not special letters, spaces or numbers. ... Remove any characters from the incoming field that are outside of the range of ASCII values from "space" to "~". ... Below is the ASCII table where you can see the range 32(space) - 126(~), so any characters that fall other than this range will get replaced with '' ... @binu_acs that's actually very interesting to read I will definitely read more into regex ... More on community.alteryx.com
RegexReplace function
Field1 is the input in below snip: I have encircled the output I want the output using Regex_replace(String,Pattern,Replace) function. Basically I want 2 characters that lie on the either side of the backslash "/" along with the backlash RegexReplace_get data around backslash.yxmd More on community.alteryx.com
How do I use Regex to remove cells with one type of character?
You could start with REGEX_Replace([field], “,+”, “,”) which should replace any instance of 1 or more commas in a row with just one comma. Then you could do TRIMLEFT([field], “,”) which should remove any leading commas. More on reddit.com
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Solved: find & replace with 'special characters' - Alteryx Community
May 30, 2018 - 3. Extracted all “special characters” into a helping table and added the corresponding “normal letter” · 4. With find&replace changes the special characters to normal characters base on
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Removing special characters from multiple fields - Alteryx Community
June 12, 2021 - I was able to get this to work in a single Multi-Field Formula tool using the formula · REGEX_Replace([_CurrentField_], "[,!\(\)#';\\/@]", ' ') This uses the exit (escape) to tell RegEx to find the special characters instead of using the special ...
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September 15, 2020 - Thai Kitchenâ® · ShareShare ... · Accepted Answer · Sep 15, 2020 · @jonathangonzales , How about: REGEX_Replace([Field1], "[^ -~]", '') It will eliminate things not in the ascii range of BLANK to TILDE ...
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Replace Special Characters in a String - Alteryx Community
February 22, 2021 - Hi @JagdeeshN, as suggested by others, the Replace() function should help you replace " with \". The only point to keep in mind is that your original string has non-standard Alteryx quotes which Alteryx treats as a special string, in which case you will have to write some form of nested Replace function to replace
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Find and Replace Special characters - Header - Alteryx Community
July 21, 2022 - REGEX_Replace([test], '\W', '_') (which will replace all non words characters) If you use the field info method, you could have a mapping table of all the the chars you want to replace and combine it with a find and replace tool for instance ...
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Solved: Replacing certain characters in a string - Alteryx Community
June 13, 2024 - The replace function works in a similar way in that you define ([Target field], ‘target string’, ‘replacement’), and we can therefore just tell Alteryx to replace all remaining _ with a space ‘ ‘. Hope this helps! If you’d like to learn a little more about RegEx then there’s plenty of great materials online - can be a very powerful tool if you’re dealing with strings containing regular patterns that you need to tackle!
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The replace parameter can be either a specified value as shown below or a marked group, like "$1". Make sure that marked groups are wrapped in double quotes. icase is an optional parameter. When specified, the case must match. By default icase=1, which means ignore case. If set to 0, the case must match. REGEX_Replace("Don't reveal your Social Security number, 123-45-6789","\d{3}-\d{2}-\d{4}", "CLASSIFIED") returns Don't reveal your Social Security number, CLASSIFIED.
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Remove All Special Characters Except for a few- RegEx
June 13, 2024 - Requirement 2 - Slight modification from the requirement 1. Except for $ and #, I would like to remove rest all special characters from output. If there is some alphabet or numeral, then I could like to keep that as is. Please refer column "Expected Output - Requirement 2" in table below. I tried achieving this through RegEx tool, but could not. Any help in this regard is highly appreciated. Thanks in advance. ... Solved! Go to Solution. ... Solved! Go to Solution. ... Try using not in the list of characters as the replacement target.
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Replace special characters using RegEx in Tableau, Alteryx and python - The Data School
In this example we want to replace the distorted german characters into its proper form using Tableau, Alteryx and python. ... In Tableau we can create a Calculated Field and use the REGEXP_Replace function.
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Solved: regex match special characters - Alteryx Community
June 13, 2024 - hi everyone, I need a little help with cleaning my dataset. I have a regex already for my exercise but it isn't covering everything. I need to replace characters in a field itself if it has only: * - --- -- - .. . / blank empty 0 Is it possible to have all this in 1 expression? for now I hav...
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Solved: Find and replace Regex - Alteryx Community
June 13, 2024 - Solved: Hi all I have chunks of texts where the character  is coming before every instance of ². Is there a way of replacing the special character,
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Solved: Remove special characters only before/after text - Alteryx Community
June 13, 2024 - I tried to use Regex but because the special character is " // " then it is read as part of the formula. I would like to remove "//" only when there is not text before/after/ Please see the example. ... Solved! Go to Solution. ... Solved! Go to Solution. ... Use the below formula in formula tool. TrimLeft(TrimRight(Replace([Field1], "// //", "//"),"//"),"//")
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Solved: Regex parsing help needed with Special Characters ... - Alteryx Community
June 13, 2024 - I am new with Alteryx and I am having issue parsing a column that contains the special characters "<" and ">" among other special characters which I am able to parse so far. However, I am stuck with these two "<" and ">" ... Solved! Go to Solution. ... Solved! Go to Solution. ... Hey @sdodero! This may not be the most efficient way to accomplish what you're looking for, but the below expression worked for me in a Formula tool: regex_replace(Replace(Replace([Field1], "<", ":"),">",":"),".*:(.*):.*","$1")
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RegexReplace function - Alteryx Community
September 6, 2022 - REGEX_Replace([Field1], '.*(\S+\s+\S+\s+\/\s+\S+\s+\S+).*$', '$1') I've attached an updated workflow! ... @IraWatt I took a similar approach to you, but using \S rather than [^\s] to call non whitespace characters
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Solved: Remove all special characters from the start and e... - Alteryx Community
June 13, 2024 - I would want the formula to say 'remove any special character, whatever it is/whatever they are, from the start of the string, to the left of the first number and to the right of the last number' 2) Removes the comma separators · What I have so far is this, but it requires me to define particular characters to remove: Tonumber(replacechar(trim(regex_replace([Amount],"^-0{1,}",'-'),"0"),"£,$",""),1) Can you point me in the right direction?