Remove space

RE: Remove space

Mike Schmitt — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 13:42:48 GMT

[quote userid="21957" url="~/discussions/f/rules/34181/remove-space/130253"]He already tried using trim() [/quote]

Oof, somehow I'd missed that.

RE: Remove space

Mathieu Drouin — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 02:19:31 GMT

He already tried using trim() and it didn't work which is why I assumed there were non-printable spaces in there.

a!localVariables(
  local!nonPrintableSpaces: { " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " ", " " },
  local!characterString: concat(local!nonPrintableSpaces),
  local!trim: trim(local!characterString),
  local!stripPlusTrim: stripwith(local!trim," "),
  local!cleanPlusTrim: clean(local!trim),
  {
    characterCodes: code(local!nonPrintableSpaces),
    trim: local!trim,
    stripPlusTrim: local!stripPlusTrim,
    cleanPlusTrim: local!cleanPlusTrim
  }
)

RE: Remove space

Chris — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 17:56:37 GMT

fn!clean() will not remove a single space, it will only reduce multiple spaces down to 1 (as far as spaces specifically are concerned).

Otherwise my favorite for this type of use case is fn!stripwith()

stripwith(" 01234"," ")

RE: Remove space

Mike Schmitt — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 14:47:10 GMT

i'd actually suggest trim()... it's specifically for this sort of thing TBH.

RE: Remove space

JayaPrakash Ravipati — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 12:17:29 GMT

hi Vattikundala Dinesh ,

you can also use the trim() function to remove the unwanted spaces.

RE: Remove space

Harshit Bumb (Appyzie) — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 10:41:38 GMT

Depends on what is the value. It is going to be a sentence where you only want to remove extra spaces but would want keep the right number of space between every word, then like Mathieu said, you can go with clean.

But if you want to remove all the spaces, no matter what, then substitute can help you.

RE: Remove space

Mathieu Drouin — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 10:32:12 GMT

Did you try clean?

docs.appian.com/.../fnc_text_clean.html