How do I automatically delete both the parenthesis and the content in them from my reader file? Is String Replacer the transformer to use? If so, can you help me with the code needed to find and replace any () and the numbers inside them with a blank. in other words, I want to delete them. This will probably be easy to a lot of you so I really appreciate your help.
Hi @dshaw, yes the StringReplacer should do that. Try this setting.
Hi @dshaw, yes the StringReplacer should do that. Try this setting.
Thank you so much! It worked. I need to learn the RGEX code!
Thank you so much! It worked. I need to learn the RGEX code!
See also the help on the StringSearcher to learn more about regex.
+5I have something similar. We need to remove the "POLYGON((" at the begging and the ending "))" I keep getting a red mark on the first parentheses. FME is seeing it as part of the formula. POLYGON((-75.9233547904934 40.2630624281009,-75.9235459763934 40.2625868196687
+5Thank you so much! It worked. I need to learn the RGEX code!
I have something similar. We need to remove the "POLYGON((" at the begging and the ending "))" I keep getting a red mark on the first parentheses. FME is seeing it as part of the formula. POLYGON((-75.9233547904934 40.2630624281009,-75.9235459763934 40.2625868196687
+60If you have parentheses as characters in your data, you may have to escape them with a preceding \ (in a StringSearcher), or enclose the search string in double quotes (in an AttributeManager and the like). You may see red parentheses in the Text Editor, but the string replacement will still work correctly.
Used in the AttributeCreator:
@ReplaceString(@ReplaceString(@Value(WKT),"))",""),"POLYGON((","")
Used in the StringSearcher:
POLYGON\(\((.+)\)\)
combined with the option Subextression Matches List Name to get the string defined by (.+)For completeness: POLYGON((x y, x y, ...)) is the OGC Well Known Text format. You can convert it to geometry using the GeometryReplacer.
+5If you have parentheses as characters in your data, you may have to escape them with a preceding \ (in a StringSearcher), or enclose the search string in double quotes (in an AttributeManager and the like). You may see red parentheses in the Text Editor, but the string replacement will still work correctly.
Used in the AttributeCreator:
@ReplaceString(@ReplaceString(@Value(WKT),"))",""),"POLYGON((","")
Used in the StringSearcher:
POLYGON\(\((.+)\)\)
combined with the option Subextression Matches List Name to get the string defined by (.+)For completeness: POLYGON((x y, x y, ...)) is the OGC Well Known Text format. You can convert it to geometry using the GeometryReplacer.
Thx for all the info! Fortunately or unfortunately for time sack the GeometryReplacer bypassed all of this. the fix that remove everything the POLYGON(( )) was @ReplaceString(@ReplaceString(@Value(geometry),"POLYGON((",""),"))",""). Thx again.