How Can I remove everything after "-" in FME using string replacer?

Thank you very much. That works. Can you please explain me that Expression so I can understand what happened there exactly?

Thank you very much. That works. Can you please explain me that Expression so I can understand what happened there exactly?

Certainly. So regex is a way to search through your string based on some rules. In this case rules are as follows:

 

\\- 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.

 

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.

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.