How to replace special character in string

RE: How to replace special character in string

RijutaGhosh — Thu, 21 Mar 2019 04:31:05 GMT

Substitute function should be used
substitute("s'd'g","'","@")

RE: How to replace special character in string

Roopesh Rambhatla — Tue, 29 May 2018 02:55:46 GMT

I agree with others using substitute as the right way of replacing special characters , There is another funny way to do the same functionality,

with(
local!a: "s'd'g'",
local!b: a!forEach(
items: reject(
fn!isnull,
split(
local!a,
"'"
)
),
expression: concat(
fv!item,
"@"
)
),
joinarray(
local!b
)
)

Output:

"s@d@g@"

RE: How to replace special character in string

Aswini — Mon, 21 May 2018 05:52:56 GMT

Hi saic,
For replacing special characters in string you can use substitute() function.

for example : substitute("A'P'P'I'A'N","'","@"). The output will be A@P@P@I@A@N

docs.appian.com/.../fnc_text_substitute.html

RE: How to replace special character in string

Mike Schmitt — Fri, 18 May 2018 17:49:58 GMT

Since nobody's said so already, I suggest you check out the function substitute().

j/k

Seriously though, I would like to offer the following expression rule which you can use to do multiple simultaneous substitutions. It accepts 2 equal-length arrays, ri!originalValues which will be replaced by the members of ri!replacementValues. Original text is ri!inputText.

if(
  count(ri!originalValues) <> count(ri!replacementValues),
  ri!inputText,
  reduce(
    fn!substitute,
    ri!inputText,
    merge( ri!originalValues, ri!replacementValues )
  )
)

RE: How to replace special character in string

Shanmukha — Fri, 18 May 2018 09:18:29 GMT

substitute is the only one function that should be used in this case since it uses the java string method int he background. other methods all little tricky and time consumable.

RE: How to replace special character in string

Shanmukha — Fri, 18 May 2018 09:18:29 GMT

substitute is the only one function that should be used in this case since it uses the java string method int he background. other methods all little tricky and time consumable.

RE: How to replace special character in string

sahilb346 — Fri, 18 May 2018 06:29:25 GMT

Hello

We also had this kind of requirement and we used substitute function. You can try substitute().

Thanks
Sahil Batra

RE: How to replace special character in string

aratim — Fri, 18 May 2018 05:44:50 GMT

Hi,
Substitute function can be useful to get the required output:
Link for more info: docs.appian.com/.../fnc_text_substitute.html
Input: substitute("s'd'g'","'","@")
Output : s@d@g@

Thanks.

RE: How to replace special character in string

krishnau3863 — Fri, 18 May 2018 05:33:49 GMT

Hi saic929,

you can use the substitute function for this requirement.

substitute(text, find, replace_with, instance_num)

substitute("s'd'g'","'","@")

output: "s@d@g@"

RE: How to replace special character in string

ravalik — Fri, 18 May 2018 04:44:23 GMT

Hi saic,

As per my level of understanding you can use substitute function as it only substitutes specified part of the string .
docs.appian.com/.../fnc_text_substitute.html

Thanks,
ravalik

RE: How to replace special character in string

chandhinir — Fri, 18 May 2018 03:11:52 GMT

hi,
substitute function can be used to get the output like below:

substitute("s'ss's","'","@") -->"s@ss@s"