Replace() - What am I doing wrong?

[Ed1]

Hi, I have a string and I want to replace all dash characters (“-”) with the space character (" "), using the SetVariable module.

Prior to the SetVariable module I have run the data through a toString Module.

The SetVariable module looks like this:

replace(VARIABLE; “-”; " ")

But the text is never changing.

What should I be doing?

Thanks for the help in advance!

----UPDATE----

I’ve fixed it using:

replace(VARIABLE; -; space)

where ‘space’ is one of the selectable keywords within Make’s functions.

[dilipborad]

Hello,
That’s excellent that you’ve fixed it.

While you using Make functions you’ve to follow proper syntax and data type as well.

{{replace("hello-world-with-dashes"; "-"; space)}}

You can also use SPACE instead of " ".
Don’t worry just copy my formula it will automatically work as per make’s function syntax.
After copy/paste, Just change the string to your variable.

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[Ed1]

Thank you, I’ve got it working as I need for 1 character change, but I’m trying to fix it for 2 character changes using a nested replace function.

It’s not quite working though, so how about this new problem. Can you help?

I am trying to now replace both commas “,” and spaces " " in one go:

replace(
replace(
“hello world, with spaces, and commas”;
“,”;
emptystring);
“hello world, with spaces, and commas”;
space;
“-”
)

so that the result should be

“hello-world-with-spaces-and-commas”

[dilipborad]

Hello,
Try this.

Just for reference

{{replace("hello world, with spaces, and commas"; "/[\s,]+/g"; "-")}}

Regular expression build using this check expression