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Glitch in Regular Expression action by making the Replacement text field mandatory?

  • 11 January 2021
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The country name 'United Kingdom' becomes #UnitedKingdom  in all our articles and messages. Hashtags like this are used a lot. To create these we need to eliminate spaces from the country name. In NW Online I used to do this with a regex action and replace the pattern s (space) with nothing (empty replacement text). 

In NWC the Replacement text field is now suddenly mandatory. 

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Is this a glitch or does anyone know another easy way to achieve the same result?

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Best answer by leighburke 12 January 2021, 02:05

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@WouterT Create a variable and use that as the replacement text. As long as you don't set a value it should act as a blank.

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Duh... I should have thought about that myself . A trick we unfortunately frequently have to use.


But anyhow: it works for now. Thanks @leighburke .


So for anyone who wants to eliminate spaces from a string, use the regular expression action like this:

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