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Hi,


I am looking for a formula to remove text between parentheses.


For exemple, I would like to have :

Le nord (Chili) > Le nord

Le nord (Soudan) > Le nord

Le sud (Soudan) > Le sud


Thanks in advance for your help 🙂 !


Like this?



Formula…


LEFT(Name, FIND("(", Name) -1)


Great, thanks a lot !

But if I don’t have any parentheses, there is no more text …


But if I don’t have any parentheses, there is no more text …



A slight modification takes care of that:


IF(FIND("(", Name), LEFT(Name, FIND("(", Name) -1), Name)

EDIT: Removed extra parentheses.

A slight modification takes care of that:


IF(FIND("(", Name), LEFT(Name, FIND("(", Name) -1), Name)

EDIT: Removed extra parentheses.


Thanks for your help but it seems that something is missing…


IF(FIND("(", Nom complet)), LEFT(Nom complet, FIND("(", Nom complet) -1), Nom complet))


Thanks for your help but it seems that something is missing…


IF(FIND("(", Nom complet)), LEFT(Nom complet, FIND("(", Nom complet) -1), Nom complet))



Two things…



  1. I didn’t double-check my parentheses and left too many in there. Fixed above.

  2. When referring to a field with spaces in its name, Airtable requires you to wrap curly braces around the field name.


With these fixes in place, your formula should be:


IF(FIND("(", {Nom complet}), LEFT({Nom complet}, FIND("(", {Nom complet}) -1), {Nom complet})

Two things…



  1. I didn’t double-check my parentheses and left too many in there. Fixed above.

  2. When referring to a field with spaces in its name, Airtable requires you to wrap curly braces around the field name.


With these fixes in place, your formula should be:


IF(FIND("(", {Nom complet}), LEFT({Nom complet}, FIND("(", {Nom complet}) -1), {Nom complet})

Perfect, thanks a lot for your help !!

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