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Form to return part of another field, but where () are used to make what is removed

  • November 11, 2022
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hi, I really have no idea what Im doing here,
I have a field that is a series of number and letters followed by a ( then more letters and numbers followed by )

example
field 1 bob( Joe ).

and I want Bob the amount of chariters inside and out of () is variable, the only thing I can go off of is the ()

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TheTimeSavingCo
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Hi Michael, give a formula field with this a shot: REGEX_REPLACE(Name, '\\(.+?\\)', '')

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  • November 17, 2022

this is great, thank you very much!