How to clean a text to return only the numeric part?https://community.appian.com/discussions/f/user-interface/18796/how-to-clean-a-text-to-return-only-the-numeric-partHi, I am trying to strip out characters that are non-numerical from an input field. For that I am trying to create a rule that I want to use in a textfield in the interface. Does anyone know how to do it? Here is what I have that is not working soen-USTelligent Community 12RE: How to clean a text to return only the numeric part?https://community.appian.com/thread/145490?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:59:32 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:dce61974-a6dd-47e4-8b48-d4b0bf6337b2ak0642<p><img style="max-height:240px;max-width:320px;" src="/resized-image/__size/640x480/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/13/pastedimage1740052732595v1.png" alt=" " /></p> <p></p> <p>I tried this, but in result i am getting -ve sign. I just need positive number</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>RE: How to clean a text to return only the numeric part?https://community.appian.com/thread/73910?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 07 May 2020 22:01:42 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:ae664ab6-f026-4048-810a-ccf5f2a00b80Mike Schmitt<p>Cool, glad to help :)</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>RE: How to clean a text to return only the numeric part?https://community.appian.com/thread/73909?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 07 May 2020 22:01:40 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:b985a379-6cbc-4656-9f83-5cf61b74b0a9robertab0001<p>Actually, i take that back! It worked. Thank you!</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>RE: How to clean a text to return only the numeric part?https://community.appian.com/thread/73908?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 07 May 2020 21:59:09 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:787e14fd-3232-4966-bcee-1bf9fa50c5e7robertab0001<p>It didn&#39;t work for me. :-|</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>RE: How to clean a text to return only the numeric part?https://community.appian.com/thread/73905?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 07 May 2020 21:19:11 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:8c24cb28-8da4-4bc5-95e3-9adb81aff071Mike Schmitt<p>tointeger() returns only numeric data.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>RE: How to clean a text to return only the numeric part?https://community.appian.com/thread/73904?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 07 May 2020 21:16:34 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:397db5a0-222a-4de5-8c4c-03f45dc61fb3robertab0001<p>Thank you, Mike. How do you make sure the text does not contain special characters, alpha characters?</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>RE: How to clean a text to return only the numeric part?https://community.appian.com/thread/73903?ContentTypeID=1Thu, 07 May 2020 21:00:02 GMTd3a83456-d57b-489c-a84c-4e8267bb592a:e52f6971-4ba8-4b68-8d29-92002a45c1acMike Schmitt<p>Usually when I have to do something like this, unless the requirements are somewhat more involved, I simply pass the value through toInteger().</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>