Hello.
I would like to remove (replace with no text) everything what is after dash also with the dash.
What I have: test - fme
What I want: test
Cheers,
Oliwer
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How Can I remove everything after "-" in FME using string replacer?
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+5- Contributor
Hi,
If you use StringReplacer with these parameters, that should do the trick...
Thank you very much. That works. Can you please explain me that Expression so I can understand what happened there exactly?
+23- Enthusiast
Hi,
If you use StringReplacer with these parameters, that should do the trick...
Do you have a website in mind that can generate automatically that kind of expression?
+5- Contributor
Thank you very much. That works. Can you please explain me that Expression so I can understand what happened there exactly?
\\- means "find - character"
.* means "find every character"
$ means "until the end of string"
Together they are: find every character from - character (including) until the end of string.
If you use FME 2016+ there's a really neat quick reference and testing option inside StringReplacer. With it you can create many of your regular expressions.
Cheers.
+5- Contributor
Do you have a website in mind that can generate automatically that kind of expression?
Just to follow up on this. This is how you would remove everything located before the dash.
^.*\\-
It took me a few minutes to figure it out so I thought I would share.
+59- Safer
Since this question has just popped back to the top of the list, I thought I'd mention the hub transformer called LastSectionOfStringRemover, which would probably handle what the original question called for.
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Since this question has just popped back to the top of the list, I thought I'd mention the hub transformer called LastSectionOfStringRemover, which would probably handle what the original question called for.
This Transformer is a Godsend... have been scratching the head until i seen your comment @mark2atsafe ! I've used it to extract a URL from a Name field extracted from an ESRI Story map. Cheers.