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How do I remove white space from an amount?

asked on January 7, 2018 • Show version history

I'm running invoices through Quick Fields and it picks up the amount total as 1, 100. 00  What pattern matching expression can I use to ignore the spaces?  Keep in mind that the totals won't always be the same, but no matter what, it always puts a space after the comma and the decimal.  Thank you.

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replied on January 8, 2018

[^\s] will return everything that's not a space. Set Pattern Matching to return all matches with no spaces if it finds multiple hits.

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replied on January 8, 2018

You could use a regular expression to separate the initial value into 3 tokens then combine those 3 tokens into one Value token. This expression can be used to get the 3 separate tokens 

(\S+)\s+\S+\s+\S+

^ gets the first value up to the comma

\S+\s+(\S+)\s+\S+

^ gets second value up to the period

\S+\s+\S+\s+(\S+)

^ gets the third value after the period.

You could then combine those three values into one which will remove the white spaces.

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replied on January 10, 2018

Thank you!

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