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Text.Select

Text.Select

Selects all occurrences of the given character or list of characters from the input text value.
function (optional text as nullable any, optional selectChars as nullable any) as nullable any

Description

Returns a copy of the text value text with all the characters not in selectChars removed.

Category

Text.Modification

Examples

Select all characters in the range of 'a' to 'z' from the text value.
Text.Select("a,b;c", {"a".."z"})
"abc"
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