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Hello!

Is there a way to calculate the value of a mathematical expression which is written on a long text field?

For example (long text field: 340+850 and formula field: 520)

Hey @Dionisis_Priftis,


welcome to Airtable community.


You your case you have to extract the numerical info from long text fields and then use the exports in formula calculation.

I hoe my response helped you and for any deeper support please feel free to text at any time.


Yours sincerely,

Dimitris Goudis


@Dionisis_Priftis Airtable doesn’t offer an “Evaluate” function like other programming languages do, so I don’t think there’s any way that you could do that natively with an Airtable formula, unless all of your mathematical expressions are always going to look similar to that one — with a single known operator in between 2 values.


Although perhaps you could do something with Regex or a custom script.


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