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LearnByMistk
Obsidian | Level 7

Hi ,

You can use tranward option  to that particular column,

as

The TRANWRD function differs from TRANSLATE in that it scans for words (or patterns of characters) and replaces those words with a second word (or pattern of characters).


hope it might be useful.

Patrick
Opal | Level 21

As TRANWRD() searches for words (whole strings) separated by some delimiter this would be the wrong function for simply replacing a character with another character.

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