remove special chars
This block is part of the value group and was last modified in core v10.4.28.
remove special chars v10.4.28 Returns the value with accents stripped. Only combining diacritical marks are removed - punctuation and symbols are kept
- value required
value
- output
valueReturns the value with its accents stripped. Punctuation and symbols are left untouched.
ONLY strips accents: Unicode-decomposes the input and removes combining diacritical marks (U+0300-U+036F), so "e" with an accent becomes plain "e". Punctuation, symbols, and other special characters are KEPT despite the label. Empty input emits NO output (the output pin stays unset).
A typical wiring for remove special chars: trim feeds the value pin; the output out pin feeds substring.
Commonly used with
In production blueprints, this block is most often wired together with:
- trim: wired in both directions with this block. Removes characters from both ends of a string.
- substring: this block feeds into it.
- convert to lowercase: this block feeds into it.
- get fields: feeds into this block. Gets the selected fields from the given object.
- logical OR: feeds into this block. will return the first truthy value, checking first, then second, then any extended pins. Falsy means null, false, 0, NaN or an empty string, so first being 0 or false also falls through.
Version history
Introduced in v10.4.28.
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