Find and replace all emoticons in text field

[Zion_Brock]

Is there any way to search for emoticons (any of them) in a text field, and replace with something like a dash or space? Is there a code for emoticon that allows a formula to search for this?

Emojis and emoticons are often put into titles of blogs, but I am curating titles and creating url’s out of them, but want to remove any trace of these.

[Justin_Barrett · Accepted solution]

This is a great use case for regular expressions, and the regex engine that Airtable uses supports the [[:ascii:]] character class, which will only match normal ASCII characters: letters, numbers, and limited special characters, but no emojis. This formula will replace anything not in that category with an empty string, but you can use whatever substitute character you prefer.

REGEX_REPLACE(Title, "[^[:ascii:]] *", "")

[Zion_Brock]

This was exactly what I needed. You da man! Thank you soooooo much. :slightly_smiling_face:

[MRauscher]

Hi everyone, 

Thank you very much for the formula.

However, it also removes accents.
My canadien customer René now has a first name of Ren.

Is there a way to remove emojis and keep accents ?

[Partyborn]

This works even better for me:

REGEX_MATCH(Titel, '[^\\u0000-\\ud7ff\\ue000-\\uffff]')