You could also use a string pair replacer, with the following replacement pairs
[ "" ] ""
Try text to replace
\[(.*)\]
Replacement text
\1
@david_r thank you very much for the formulation of the regular expression,
however I have another issue. It appeared afterwards that the comma in the [Park5, Park4]" for example led to some problems when importing into another software, therefore, the comma preferably should also be deleted. I know vaguely that the ^ character is involved, however I have not really a clue how to formalate that
You could also use a string pair replacer, with the following replacement pairs
[ "" ] ""
This is a good one. Added bonus: easy to modify to get rid of the comma as well.
You could also use a string pair replacer, with the following replacement pairs
[ "" ] ""
To replace the comma too, use [ "" ] "" , ""
Unfortunately the stringpairreplacer is not very legible when replacing single characters like this. You can vote for my improvement idea here https://knowledge.safe.com/idea/81295/stringpairreplacer-interface-improvements.html
You could also use a string pair replacer, with the following replacement pairs
[ "" ] ""
@egomm wow that is a nice alternative, Is it possible to include symbols? I would like to add parentheses around a number for example, thus Park5 will become Park(5) or should I use the StringReplacer for that?
@egomm wow that is a nice alternative, Is it possible to include symbols? I would like to add parentheses around a number for example, thus Park5 will become Park(5) or should I use the StringReplacer for that?
I suspect you'll need the StringSearcher for that one, as the StringPairReplacer is about replacing known characters. You can try this:
Text to replace:
(\d+)
Replacement text:
(\1)
I suspect you'll need the StringSearcher for that one, as the StringPairReplacer is about replacing known characters. You can try this:
Text to replace:
(\d+)
Replacement text:
(\1)
@ david_r , for some reason after doing all the steps mentioned before
1) deleting square brackets in stringpairreplacer
2) deleting comma's in stringpairreplacer
3) and surrounding parentheses around the numbers in stringreplacer
I get the following output in the other software when I importing the column,
The square brackets in this case, is due to the fact that I am reading the column in the software as lists, therefore the squarebrackets. If I didn't remove the squarebrackets beforehand in FME, there would have been list in another list.
However as you can see, instead of 'Park(5)','Park(4)' I get thus the thing above in the picture. So I was wondering how I could prevent the seperate entities as in the above picture
@ david_r , for some reason after doing all the steps mentioned before
1) deleting square brackets in stringpairreplacer
2) deleting comma's in stringpairreplacer
3) and surrounding parentheses around the numbers in stringreplacer
I get the following output in the other software when I importing the column,
The square brackets in this case, is due to the fact that I am reading the column in the software as lists, therefore the squarebrackets. If I didn't remove the squarebrackets beforehand in FME, there would have been list in another list.
However as you can see, instead of 'Park(5)','Park(4)' I get thus the thing above in the picture. So I was wondering how I could prevent the seperate entities as in the above picture
What format are you writing to? It sounds like something that's being inserted on writing and may be controlled by a parameter in the writer. I presume if you hook up an inspector to the stringreplacer and look at the attributes they don't have the quote marks?
What format are you writing to? It sounds like something that's being inserted on writing and may be controlled by a parameter in the writer. I presume if you hook up an inspector to the stringreplacer and look at the attributes they don't have the quote marks?
@egomm Yes when I look at inspector, there areindeed no quotation marks. When I delete the square brackets and the comma, then this problem doesn't occure. It's only after including the parentheses, that this does occur. In case when it has to do with a parameter in the writer, do you have by any chance an idea about which parameter it might be the case?
