I'm trying to remove something from a product title as part of a Google sheet
And I want to be able to remove everything from the ,
and either the CL
, ML
or L
.
The problem I'm running into is that I don't know enough about regex and I'm struggling to find a good place to learn!
What I've tried so far is below
=REGEXREPLACE(A2,"[, ]\QML|CL\E","")
but this doesn't work and I think its because [, ]
isn't a valid part.
=REGEXREPLACE(A2,"\*\QML|CL\E","")
because I know that ,
is the only punctuation in the titles - I've also tried this but not been successful.
What you are trying to get is
(?i), .*?[CM]?L
See the regex demo. Details:
(?i)
- case insensitive flag, .*?
- comma, space, and then any zero or more chars other than line break chars, as few as possible (due to *?
, if you need as many as possible use *
instead)[CM]?L
- C
or M
(optionally due to ?
) and then an L
char.However, you can simply match from a ,
+ space till the end of the line:
", .*
See this regex demo. Here, the first comma+space is matched and then the rest of the string (line, since .
does not match line breaks by default).