Removing HTML code in the beginning of text

[Jesper_Holmstro]

Hey Guys!
Im trying to remove a text in the beginning from a lookup field, by formula.
The text starts with "<div class="vaning"></div><div class="namn">" and I want to remove “<div class="vaning"></div>” in the beginning.
I tried with the replace formula but only get error messages, does anyone know why?
For example:
REPLACE({field name}, 1, 26, “”)
Thanks J

[JonathanBowen]

Your formula works fine for me, although check you are not inserting formatted quotes (just use plain text quotes).

REPLACE(Name, 1, 26, '')

[Jesper_Holmstro]

Hi Jonathan
It works on an ordinary textfield as you mentioned, but not on a Lookup field and I don’t know how to get around that?

[JonathanBowen · Accepted solution]

Ah, OK, this ie because the lookup field is an array not a string. What you need to do is turn the lookup field into a string, then it will work fine. So:

REPLACE(Lookup & '', 1, 26, '')

Joining the Lookup field with an empty string will convert the array to a string, then REPLACE can do its work.

[Jesper_Holmstro]

Yes that works great, just found that if I do a Rollup field instead, the original formula works as well.
Thank you for your advice.
Jesper