Aug 27, 2021 10:50 PM
Hey there, looking to create a simple slug and for some reason the apostrophe isn’t being removed.
Example Title: Zoom Fatigue is real, so let’s deal with it.
So make lowercase, remove apostrophes remove commas, remove full stops and replace spaces with dashes (etc) is what I’m after.
LOWER(
SUBSTITUTE(
SUBSTITUTE(
SUBSTITUTE(
SUBSTITUTE(
{Name}, "'",""
),
",", ""
),
".", ""
),
" ", "-"
)
)
I cannot fathom why the apostrophe is not being removed. I’m missing something easy… ideas?
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Aug 28, 2021 01:36 AM
Hard to tell because of the resolution of your screenshot, but might that apostrophe be a typographically correct one (’
), not the ASCII single quote ('
) your formula is replacing? You can cover that case and get rid of other nested SUBSTITUTE
s by using REGEX_REPLACE
. For instance, this:
LOWER(
REGEX_REPLACE(
REGEX_REPLACE(Name, "['’´,.]+", ""),
"\s+", "-"
)
)
will substitute a hyphen for whitespace and remove dots, commas and common apostrophe variants.
Aug 28, 2021 01:36 AM
Hard to tell because of the resolution of your screenshot, but might that apostrophe be a typographically correct one (’
), not the ASCII single quote ('
) your formula is replacing? You can cover that case and get rid of other nested SUBSTITUTE
s by using REGEX_REPLACE
. For instance, this:
LOWER(
REGEX_REPLACE(
REGEX_REPLACE(Name, "['’´,.]+", ""),
"\s+", "-"
)
)
will substitute a hyphen for whitespace and remove dots, commas and common apostrophe variants.
Aug 29, 2021 10:09 PM
My dude! Thank you. I now know about REGEX-REPLACE. :pray: