https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/new-to-appian/38528/need-expressionHow to express this statment in code format: if ri!service is null, just return ri!service else if ri!service ends with a period, don&#39;t include period part, otherwise do value for ri!service : &quot; Any days of serious level of working after Marchen-USTelligent Community 12https://community.appian.com/thread/145369?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 14 Feb 2025 15:09:19 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:678cb725-ab81-4356-816e-5f6e35194e22Mike Schmitt<p><pre class="ui-code" data-mode="java">if( right(ri!text, 1) = &quot;.&quot;, left(ri!text, len(ri!text)-1), ri!text )</pre></p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://community.appian.com/thread/145353?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 14 Feb 2025 09:34:54 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:6d57934c-594b-45d4-a1ed-6973defffccfStefan Helzle<p>You could try the generative AI capabilities.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://community.appian.com/thread/145348?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 14 Feb 2025 07:54:19 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:43fc6adb-85de-43f7-9bbb-883882efd3c5om786<p>ya its simple text only...</p> <p>any way to do this task....</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://community.appian.com/thread/145347?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 14 Feb 2025 07:52:47 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:bd0f490c-8e23-4d57-b81d-d96d1c210d2eStefan Helzle<p>What format does this &quot;period&quot; have? I mean, if this is just random text entered by a person, this becomes quite a challenge.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://community.appian.com/thread/145341?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 14 Feb 2025 01:50:07 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:4977aba8-0da3-4bd5-ab51-eb779cf39aa1om786<p>Input is recevied as in simple text format :&nbsp;<span><strong>Any days of serious level of working</strong> <span style="background-color:#ffff00;"><strong>after March,7,2025</strong></span></span></p> <p></p> <p>output only expected:&nbsp;&nbsp;<span style="background-color:#00ff00;"><strong>Any days of serious level of working&nbsp;</strong></span></p> <p><span style="background-color:#00ff00;"><strong>&nbsp;</strong></span></p> <p><span style="background-color:#00ff00;"><span style="background-color:#ffffff;">As the input is in text format &amp; date or period part at the last is keep changing with every user. </span></span></p> <p><span style="background-color:#00ff00;"><span style="background-color:#ffffff;">so need to avoid the period part if provided by user, rest text part needed to be print.</span><strong><br /></strong></span></p> <p></p> <div style="display:none;position:absolute;"></div><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://community.appian.com/thread/145340?ContentTypeID=1Fri, 14 Feb 2025 01:34:46 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:5c81622f-95b7-4c52-9cc1-7dfd7e672425karthikkanjerla<p>if you would like to remove period use stripwith()</p> <p></p> <p>can you provide an example whats the input is recieved and output you are expecting?</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>