topic Remove space in emailadresses in QlikView

Remove space in emailadresses

JacobT — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 07:32:31 GMT

I got a qvw that reads in data from excel and then adds it to nPrint.
No spaces are allowed in [e-post] as well it has to be lowercase.

I sorted out the lower as lower([e-post]) as [e-post],

Can I make one line to handle both the lower and the remove of spaces in e-post?

I read about 10 posts in the forum but could not find anything that worked, I tried a few different trims, replace etc.

The space can be anywhere in the e-mail, it's users who adds them.

Re: Remove space in emailadresses

marcus_sommer — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 08:33:45 GMT

Maybe: lower(purgechar([e-post], ' ')) as [e-post]

- Marcus

Re: Remove space in emailadresses

JacobT — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 08:33:46 GMT

trim(PurgeChar([e-post],' ')) as [e-post], this solved first problem,
but can I incoporate lower on the same line?

I used to have lower([e-post]) as [e-post] for the lower before I added this.

Re: Remove space in emailadresses

Stoyan_Terziev — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 08:34:10 GMT

Hi JacobT,

Try this:

Lower(Replace([e-post], ' ', '')) as [e-post],

Re: Remove space in emailadresses

JacobT — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 08:37:03 GMT

lower(PurgeChar([e-post],' ')) as [e-post], worked space between '' ofc, thank you for the help!

Re: Remove space in emailadresses

marcus_sommer — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 08:38:56 GMT

You could easily nest these functions - depending on the task (not in this case) it might be useful to apply functions like lower/upper at the most inside because it could reduce the efforts with the keepchar/purgechar and similar.

- Marcus

Re: Remove space in emailadresses

Vegar — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 08:39:01 GMT

Both these expressions should work:

PurgeChar( Lower([e-m ai l]), ' ')

and

Replace( Lower([e-m ai l]), ' ','')

Using this script:

LOAD * inline [
e-m ai l
jacob T@qlikcommunity.com
Vegar@ qlik community.com];