Text operators

Reference for all text and string operators supported in Noloco formula fields, including &, CONCATENATE, LEFT, RIGHT, MID, LEN, UPPER, LOWER, PROPER, TRIM, CLEAN, FIND, SEARCH, REPLACE, SUBSTITUTE, R

All text and string operators supported in Noloco formulas. Use these for concatenation, substrings, search, case conversion, and formatting.

Available operators: &, CLEAN, CONCATENATE, EXACT, FIND, ISBLANK, LEFT, LEN, LOWER, MID, PROPER, REPLACE, REPT, RIGHT, SEARCH, SUBSTITUTE, TEXT, TRIM, UPPER.


&

text1 & text2

Appends two strings to one another. Alias for CONCATENATE.

Example: "Hello " & "World"

CONCATENATE

CONCATENATE(text1, text2)

Appends two strings to one another.

CLEAN

CLEAN(text)

Removes non-printable characters from a string.

EXACT

EXACT(text1, text2)

Checks if two strings are identical.

FIND

FIND(searchQuery, text)

Returns the first position a string occurs within another string.

ISBLANK

ISBLANK(text)

Returns true if a string is blank.

LEFT

LEFT(text, numberOfCharacters)

Returns a substring from the beginning of a string.

LEN

LEN(text)

Returns the length of a string.

LOWER

LOWER(text)

Returns a string in lowercase.

MID

MID(text, startPosition, numberOfCharacters)

Returns a substring from the middle of a string.

PROPER

PROPER(text)

Returns a string with words capitalized.

REPLACE

REPLACE(text, startPosition, replacementLength, replacementText)

Replaces part of a string with another provided string, based on position.

REPT

REPT(text, numberOfTimes)

Repeats a string a number of times.

RIGHT(text, numberOfCharacters)

Returns a substring from the end of a string.

SEARCH(searchQuery, text, startPosition)

Returns the first position a string occurs in another string after a start character position.

SUBSTITUTE

SUBSTITUTE(text, searchQuery, replacement)

Replaces all occurrences of a provided query with a provided replacement in a string.

Example: SUBSTITUTE(name, "-old", " (discontinued)")

TEXT

TEXT(number, format)

Converts a number into text according to a specified format.

TRIM

TRIM(text)

Removes spaces from the beginning and end of a string.

UPPER

UPPER(text)

Returns a string in uppercase.


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