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MChan
Calcite | Level 5

I have a role column similar to below:

 

Manager

_Tester_Team

_Research_Team

Supervisor

_Helper_Team

 

How do I drop only the the first character if it begins with an underscore "_" ?

 

Final output:

Manager

Tester_Team

Research_Team

Supervisor

Helper_Team

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ballardw
Super User

 

if variablename  =: '_' then variablename = substr(variablename,2);

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ballardw
Super User

 

if variablename  =: '_' then variablename = substr(variablename,2);

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Jade | Level 19

Did those underscores come from import from EXCEL.  If so I would fix in EXCEL.

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