https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/general/27015/expression-ruleI want to create an expression rule to convert text. I have made following rule. rule input - &quot;:Vijay Shete&quot; extract(ri!input,&quot;:&quot;,&quot; &quot;) output - &quot;Vijay&quot; How do I get &quot;Vijay Shete&quot; as output?(Just remove the colon at beginning.)en-USTelligent Community 12https://community.appian.com/thread/106058?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 29 Dec 2022 05:59:46 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:8d0fab23-cf04-4a3d-936a-09b6b960cc1dHarshitha Mangamuri<p>Hi Vijay Kumar, Please try using this code. Hope it helps you</p> <p>stripwith(<span>&quot;:Vijay Shete&quot;,</span>&quot;:&quot;)</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://community.appian.com/thread/106057?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 29 Dec 2022 05:48:21 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:d88e61ee-cdcc-460d-847c-963b40e387daujjwalb0003<p>you can use stripwith or cleanwith func</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>