How can I remove all special characters and spaces from values in a field?

NathanDorsch
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I want to remove all special characters and spaces from a field in ETL.... how can I do this? Is there an easier way than having to create an individual replace text line for each specific character?
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Yes as it's not in the exclusion list
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Regular expressions are your friend in this case. You could ignore any non-alphanumeric characters in your string with something like this with a formula tile:
REGEXP_REPLACE(`field`, '[^a-zA-Z0-9]', '')
[] = Group of possible characters
^ = NOT
a-zA-Z any letter
0-9 = any digit
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Thank you. Would that also remove spaces? so '10 / 20' would be '1020'
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Yes as it's not in the exclusion list
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Thanks!
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