Jess,
> I'm an FME newbie having trouble figuring out how to trim quotation
> marks from a set of pipe diameters.
>
> 12" -> 12
> 18" -> 18
> 10" -> 10
>
> I'm sure this is simple, however, the several tranformers I've tried
> don't like " being entered as an input. For example if I try to use
> the AttributeTrimmer xfmr, and put in " as the Trim Characters I get
> an error (Unbalanced Quotation Marks ...).
You can 'escape' special characters like that by placing a \ in front of
it. E.g. don't put " in the AttributeTrimmer, but \"
The escape character \ tells FME (it's actually not an FME specific
thing, it pops up in more places) to consided the character that follows
it as whatever character it is, rather than the special meaning it has.
In case you're wondering, if you would want to remove a \ from a string,
you should use \\
Hope this helps.
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