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amol2939
Calcite | Level 5
I have a lab result and want to filter only character result value
Eg: O Positive
Pale yellow
Any idea how to filter
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ChrisNZ
Tourmaline | Level 20

What's the criterion? 

No digits allowed? Only letters allowed? Punctuation allowed? Spaces allowed?

amol2939
Calcite | Level 5
Only letters allowed
ChrisNZ
Tourmaline | Level 20
amol2939
Calcite | Level 5
Space allowed
But no numeric value must be there
ChrisNZ
Tourmaline | Level 20

To test for numerics:

  where ^anydigit(VAR) ;

To test for non- letters and spaces:

  where ^prxmatch('/[^ a-zA-Z]/');

 

amol2939
Calcite | Level 5
Spaces allowed
andreas_lds
Jade | Level 19

To stop guessing what you really need, please post data you have in usable form and the expected result.

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