topic Re: Remove Special Characters from Geo database Feature Classes in Python Questions

Remove Special Characters from Geo database Feature Classes

TomDonovan-Brady1 — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 17:59:35 GMT

Hello, I am using ArcPRO 2.9, and I would like to run this script within the python window in ArcPRO. I have a lot of Geodatabase Feature Classes that have a '_' in various places in the file name. Is there a way with Python to remove '_'? Unfortunately, they are not in the same place; most online help I have found refers to a specific character being replaced.

So currently, I have

<GDB_Name>.DBO.B_H_Limited_Waiting_M_S_8AM_6PM.

I want it to look like this

<GDB>.DBO.BHLimitedWaiitngMS8am6pm.

I do not need to keep any '_', so they can all be removed.

Any help, I would be most grateful.

Tom

Re: Remove Special Characters from Geo database Feature Classes

Anonymous User — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 15:10:31 GMT

gdbname = r'<GDB_Name>.DBO.B_H_Limited_Waiting_M_S_8AM_6PM' newgdbname = gdbname.replace('_', '') print(newgdbname)

Re: Remove Special Characters from Geo database Feature Classes

DannyMcVey — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 16:17:04 GMT

import arcpy arcpy.env.workspace = "c:/data/gdb.gdb" for fc in arcpy.ListFeatureClasses(): if "_" in arcpy.Describe(fc).name: arcpy.management.Rename(fc, arcpy.Describe(fc).name.replace('_', '',))