Take the 2-minute tour ×  I want to use the Python field
calculator to remove the hyphen from a field column. For
example, I would like to parse out the hyphen from an entry like
"123-45-6789" and read "123456789".  share|improve this question
Why the down votes? –  Nathan W Dec 26 '12 at 2:28  2 Answers 2
Use the built-in str.replace method accessible on all string
objects.  Put this in the Expression box (replacing "FieldName"
with your own):  share|improve this answer  The sub method in
Python's regular expression module should do the trick.  import
re no_hyphens = re.sub('-','','123-45-6789')  This will replace
any instance of a "-" with an empty string.  share|improve this
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