I am facing an issue with some data that start with a strange character before the number 5 how can I discover all of these characters and remove it
5,AX,AMEX,0,0,0,0,0,0,0, DM,BSHB,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,MC, BSHB,1,323.50,0,0,0,0,1,P1, BSHB,81,7819.25,0,0,0,0,81, VC,BSHB,5,212.95,0,0,0,0,5
what do you recommend to resolve this issue knowing that I get the data from a specific source so I can not change anything but I am trying to mask it in the view?
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Answer
regexp_replace can always help to find or replace/remove any characters you want.
For example, if you want to delete all characters escept alphanumeric, space, comma and dot:
regexp_replace(t.str,'[^ ,.[:alnum:]]')