Text replace with an input

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Hi. I’m trying to replace the text in an input and then update that text somewhere else to “clean up” a database, but I can’t get “replace()” to work.

My original idea was to extract the information from Notion, set a variable with the replaced text, and then update the database item with that variable, but the output of the text replace is the same as the input, nothing changes.

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I tried with plain text, and it works, but nothing on the input is working. (I know there’s a closing parenthesis missing in the img, that’s not it. :sweat_smile:)

Thanks in advance.

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You should remove the double quotes from your function.

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Hi @cchulia

You can try this:
{{replace(1.text; “My contacts”; emptystring)}}
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Msquare Automation
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@Msquare_Automation

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Thank you both! That was surpringsingly easy to fix, I had tried without the double quotes, but I was missing the emptystring, trying to use just blank space for it, which was the problem.