Remove "County" from Arcade label of county names

[NicoleCarter]

New to Arcade, trying to remove some text from a label so it fits better. For example the labels are:

Iowa County

Wood County

Monroe County 

How do I write an arcade expression to remove "County" from each label?

[ZachBodenner]

You could try using split:

Split($feature.labelfield, ' ')

I haven't used this one much, but if I read correctly, the first set of quotes with the space between will tell the Arcade renderer to use spaces as splits. You can also add a comma and then give it an integer value to specify the maximum number of splits.

Split($feature.labelfield, ' ', 1)

That might be helpful because it will for sure remove "County" from the return, but it might give you problems if a county has a two word name (ex. Otter Tail County" would just return "Otter.")

https://developers.arcgis.com/arcade/function-reference/text_functions/#split

Another option might be something like this: 

var txt = $feature.labelfield;
return Left(txt, Count(txt)-7)

If all the names are the same (County, which is 6 letters, plus a space before it) this should remove the final 7 characters of each name. This expression came from a similar ask on the community

PS sorry for a bunch of edits, I had ideas right after I hit submit!

[SteveCole]

Someone else might have a more elegant solution but this should work:

var theInput = 'Alpha Bravo County';
var inputArray = Split(theInput, " ");

var theOutput = '';

for (var i in inputArray) {
  if (Upper(inputArray[i]) != 'COUNTY') {
    theOutput = theOutput + ' ' + inputArray[i];
  }
}

return Trim(theOutput);

I'm using the Upper function just to be safe in case there's any mix of upper / lower / proper case field values (but everyone is always consistent with attribute entry, amirite?)

Steve

[ThomasHoman]

Sorry, not on machine to do sample code. Why not just use the text replace function?

Replace('Monroe County', ' County', '')  Grab the leading space to County -> _County then replace with empty value

https://developers.arcgis.com/arcade/function-reference/text_functions/#replace 

[LindsayRaabe_FPCWA · Accepted solution]

This would be my go to solution in the label expression:

Replace($feature.FieldName," County","")

For the reasons mentioned above, I would avoid the Split option.