Assignment/Validation-How Replace will work?

Question

Hi, I need to write formula which can replace value of the field.
For example: In Assigement, I need to check Name1 field for Company name and than replace the value with new value. There is no REPLACE function available in Assigement tab in data manager. How can I replace the value?
For example:
Name 1 contains Mr. Robert D'soza- For this value I need to remove Mr. and last name and wants to make name1: Robert and name2: D'soza. I tried different ways like trim left, trim right and all but unable to write excact formula.
Can some one help me out ???
Regards,
R.n

Answer 1

Hi Rn ,
Have you found a solution as yet ? Well, sorry for the delay, but the trim all function trims every thing else except what is mention in paranthesis.
For example: the follwoing statement
If(Is_not_null(Name1),Trim_all("The"),Name1)
removes all the other characters in the name field except ´the' . Though this is not entirely your requirement, you could use this explicitly on records to remove the 'the' by specifying the rest of the name in the trim statement.
Will keep trying to check if a more generic assignment can be made.
By the way you could use the value conversion filter in the import manager o nthe name 1 field to replace the ´The´characters with spaces , am sure you must considered this option too .
Do let us know how your issue is solved.
Regards ,
Anita