Howdy Ya’ll!
I have a column with phone numbers formatted like this: '+1 816-537-5108. How do I remove the extra characters and spaces and leave just the numbers?
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Howdy @Chris_Scott !
If you added another column with the formula filter(str.isdigit, $Phone), that could work.
Or a trigger formula of filter(str.isdigit, str(value)) could clean up phone numbers as you enter them.
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Try this recipe: create a new column, put into it the formula:
"".join(c for c in $First_Phone if c.isdigit())
Make sure it’s a formula column (as opposed to a data column).
The approach with str.isdigit looked right to me, but when I tried it, I got the error 'isdigit' requires a 'str' object but received a 'unicode':
This recipe would work too if you replaced str with unicode. The difference between str and unicode is an unfortunate complexity of Python in dealing with text, but it will get better with our planned Python upgrade. Luckily, it does not affect the recipe above.
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