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Removing an abbreviation from records

  • April 27, 2023
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Nathan_Ramey
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I have a column that has a list of counties and they all have the state abbreviations next to them. Is there a way to remove the abbreviations with a formula inside of airtable? 

Best answer by TheTimeSavingCo

Is there a seperator of some sort?  If there is you can use it with LEFT() and FIND() like so:

 

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

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TheTimeSavingCo
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Is there a seperator of some sort?  If there is you can use it with LEFT() and FIND() like so:

 

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

Nathan_Ramey
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  • April 27, 2023

Is there a seperator of some sort?  If there is you can use it with LEFT() and FIND() like so:

 

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

Thank you! It does have a separating character it is a comma. It is formatted like this.


South Dakoda, US

Ohio, Us etc

 

I tried your formula and it leaves the comma in the text box. Is there a way to fix this?


Nathan_Ramey
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  • April 27, 2023

Thank you! It does have a separating character it is a comma. It is formatted like this.


South Dakoda, US

Ohio, Us etc

 

I tried your formula and it leaves the comma in the text box. Is there a way to fix this?


I fixed it all I did was add a "-1" to the formula