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Dictionary to remove an unneeded end to a string

Trying to import event IDs, but the platform we're using won't allow multiple entries with the same ID.


Thus I'm wanting to take something that'd turn both "EVENTID1718/A" and "EVENTID1718/B" into plain "EVENTID1718". 


Not every ID will have that sort of suffix, but I can change what the split is if needed.


Suggestions?

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This is assuming that your string is always alphanumeric and a forward slash always be the delimeter. If so you could use some regex that looks something like this:

Replacement values:   $1
Value to match on:   (\w+)\/(\w+)

This looks for any length alphanumeric string split by a forward slash. It then returns only group 1;  everything before the slash

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This is assuming that your string is always alphanumeric and a forward slash always be the delimeter. If so you could use some regex that looks something like this:

Replacement values:   $1
Value to match on:   (\w+)\/(\w+)

This looks for any length alphanumeric string split by a forward slash. It then returns only group 1;  everything before the slash

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The string will always be alphanumeric, and basically the delimeter is whatever I want it to be, as all our digital team need is that they can put a different ID in for each event, so /A /B /C etc seemed the easiest way of giving them that but letting me easily remove it.

Just checked it and it looks like it works, thank you very much!


Best,


John

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