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Tihannah
Obsidian | Level 7

I have a 'Name' column that is pulling in some generic data sets than contain numerics. How do I create a filter that pulls out any name containing a numeric when the column is in character format? I've tried NOT CONTAINS and NOT LIKE and keep getting ERROR: LIKE operator requires character operands. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

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Tihannah
Obsidian | Level 7

Not really what I was looking for, but I used the NOTANYDIGIT I found through one of the subsequent links to create a flag for the rows that contained a number and then filtered them out of the dataset. Thanks!

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