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I have done a bunch of internet research on this topic with no such luck. The closest I got to a solution is Removing extra string from text column in Attribute Table to make numeric column from number part using ArcGIS Field Calculator?.

I have an attribute field "UniqueID" with information formatted as "NE_MH143". other information in this field start with "SE_", "NW_" and "SW_". I would like to reduce this information to remove the first three characters of the string.

Can this be done with ArcGIS field calculator?

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asked Jan 13, 2017 at 21:01
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To strip off the first 3 characters simply use the following in a field calculation:

!UniqueID![3:]
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answered Jan 14, 2017 at 1:32
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    In the case of beginners - you need to change the parser to python for this calc. Commented Jan 16, 2017 at 4:25

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