Disregard Dashes in a search workflow

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February 06, 2014 00:15

I have been looking in the forums for a topic that discusses how to build a search workflow that can disregard certain characters.

Our Assessor Parcels contain dashes in the number (APN) such as 123-456-78-90.  Our permitting system contains these dashes.  However, our GIS dataset of parcels does not have dashes (1234567890).  In our GE site, I would like our users to be able to copy-paste from our permitting system into the APN search workflow without needing to remove the dashes.

I am sure this is easy.  I am just overlooking something.

Thanks in advance for your advice!

Jason

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  Permanently deleted user

  February 06, 2014 01:07

  Hi Jason,

  Use an assign activity, create a string variable called APNinGIS and set the assignment to look like APNinGIS = UserInputedString.Replace("-","")

   

  This activity will remove the dashes if they  are present. If a user enters the APN without dashes nothing bad will happen.

  regards,

   

  Edmond

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