Remove Characters after comma for string fields

[Matteo_Saporett]

Hello Airtable world,

I need help with a formula. I have a look up field with many options. All of these options share the same data for some field e.g. Pick Up Location.

In this case, I have 1 record with 2 options (lookup field) and the look up field extracts: Montreal, Montreal.

Is there a formula I can use to only keep what is before the first comma when working strings

This is an example of what I am trying to achieve

Thank you in advance

Matt

[TheTimeSavingCo · Accepted solution]

Hm, not sure what your data setup's like, but maybe you could look into using a rollup field with the formula `ARRAYUNIQUE(values)` as well

[augmented · Accepted solution]

Something along the lines (untested)...

IF(FIND(',',{field name}&''), 
   LEFT(FIND(',',{field name}&'')-1,{field name}&''), 
   {field name}&''
)

[Matteo_Saporett]

well that works just fine, thanks a lot!

[samstackbrick]

Can you help me do the same for Los Angeles (hollywood)? I need to remove everything including and after the "(" in "(hollywood)"

So my goal is to make Los Angeles (hollywood) --> Los Angeles