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JamesTrory
Qrew Assistant Captain
7 years ago

Deleting end characters

I'm having difficulty trying to strip out the middle of a text string. Below is an example of the record as it is entered into Quickbase in the field [Name]:

[NYC OM] On Model - Standard - /10222018_NYS1_UNREC_M_1869_OUTPUT/ColorCorrect/

What I want to display in a new field is:

10222018_NYS1_UNREC_M_1869_OUTPUT/ColorCorrect

So far what I have working is:

NotLeft(Trim([Name]),"/")

This works to trim off the beginning so that I have
10222018_NYS1_UNREC_M_1869_OUTPUT/ColorCorrect/

However I really want to get rid of that trailing backslash at the end. The problem is that I also need to make sure I keep the backslash separating the word OUTPUT and ColorCorrect.

I can't find a formula that works. There must be a way to just look at the very end of the whole string and remove one character, I just can't figure it out.
  • Try this

    var text StepOne = NotLeft(Trim([Name]),"/");

    IF(Ends($StepOne, "/"), NotRight($StepOne,1), $StepOne)