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I’m working on a character generator for Dungeons and Dragons and I’m having trouble building a formula to get all the information in one place.

This is the view on the form I created:

My goal is to create a formula that get rid of the numbers and just displays what Race the player selected (elf, dragonborn, etc.) for easier readability in grid view.

When I write the formula to only refer to a single number it works fine.

But when I try and have the formula substitute multiple numbers with a blank space it returns an error message.

I was using the example formula on the side as a reference which uses => instead of a comma to separate the value being substituted with the new value but that didn’t make a difference. I’m pretty sure I copied the format of the example correctly otherwise so I’m not sure what I’m doing well.

I have no experience programming, I’m just teaching myself as I go along so any help/advice would be extremely appreciated. Thank you!

Hi there! Try this:

REGEX_REPLACE({Race (d12)}, "\\d+\\.\\s", "")

This formula uses regular expressions to replace combination of number, period and empty space with a given string (in our case empty string “”).

Hi Tom. Just wondering why you numbered them in the first place? The numbers don’t signify anything do they?

Hi Tom. Just wondering why you numbered them in the first place? The numbers don’t signify anything do they?


Hey augumented, I numbered them because it’s basically a table for people to roll on during character creation. So they’d roll a 12 sided die for race.

Hi there! Try this:

REGEX_REPLACE({Race (d12)}, "\\d+\\.\\s", "")

This formula uses regular expressions to replace combination of number, period and empty space with a given string (in our case empty string “”).


Thanks Ela I tried it and it works!!!

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