# Formatting: Removing Brackets and Quotes

**URL:** <https://community.blaze.today/t/formatting-removing-brackets-and-quotes/23905>\
**Category:** Questions and Help\
**Created:** [October 31, 2022, 5:52pm UTC](https://community.blaze.today/t/formatting-removing-brackets-and-quotes/23905 "2022-10-31T17:52:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![anon87081067](https://community.blaze.today/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@anon87081067](https://community.blaze.today/u/anon87081067)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 5:52pm UTC](https://community.blaze.today/t/formatting-removing-brackets-and-quotes/23905/1 "2022-10-31T17:52:04Z")

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Hi Everyone, I have created a snippet using a google sheet import, and I have everything working the way I want, except the data is displayed between two brackets and quotes - how do I remove those?

![Text-Blaze-Dashboard](https://community.blaze.today/uploads/default/original/2X/3/3079a1c8cb37ead5180147d407581449a604c46f.png)

{urlload: [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vR6t7hktmjXDvYTkeS3nsdDfGIeJIwLdv-c8IIRF5r3YQ7x557pyVH41XEgTDkWFi5jjCl1PEHLZOLo/pub?output=csv](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vR6t7hktmjXDvYTkeS3nsdDfGIeJIwLdv-c8IIRF5r3YQ7x557pyVH41XEgTDkWFi5jjCl1PEHLZOLo/pub?output=csv); done=(res) -\> ["csv\_data"=res]}  
{chi=slice(split(replace(csv\_data, "Chicago,", ""), "\n"), 2,2)}  
We can have someone come as soon as {=chi}

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**Author:** ![Dan\_Barak1](https://community.blaze.today/user_avatar/community.blaze.today/dan_barak1/32/2322_2.png) [@Dan\_Barak1](https://community.blaze.today/u/Dan_Barak1)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 7:30pm UTC](https://community.blaze.today/t/formatting-removing-brackets-and-quotes/23905/2 "2022-10-31T19:30:16Z")

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Hi @anon87081067 ,  
The results (`chi`) is a list with one item.  
What you're looking for is getting the first item, which can be done like this:  
{=chi[1]}  
Please let me know if you have any questions.

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**Author:** ![anon87081067](https://community.blaze.today/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@anon87081067](https://community.blaze.today/u/anon87081067)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 7:34pm UTC](https://community.blaze.today/t/formatting-removing-brackets-and-quotes/23905/3 "2022-10-31T19:34:40Z")

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@Dan_Barak1 That did it, thank you so much!

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**Author:** ![anon87081067](https://community.blaze.today/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d9b06d/32.png) [@anon87081067](https://community.blaze.today/u/anon87081067)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 8:40pm UTC](https://community.blaze.today/t/formatting-removing-brackets-and-quotes/23905/4 "2022-10-31T20:40:08Z")

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@Dan_Barak1 next question, I got this to work, but I still get the pop-up dialogue that I than have to choose "Insert" on - is there a way to by pass that so when I type the snippet in it automatically inserts everything without the pop up dialogue?

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**Author:** ![Gaurang\_Tandon](https://community.blaze.today/user_avatar/community.blaze.today/gaurang_tandon/32/3796_2.png) [@Gaurang\_Tandon](https://community.blaze.today/u/Gaurang_Tandon)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2022, 4:20am UTC](https://community.blaze.today/t/formatting-removing-brackets-and-quotes/23905/5 "2022-11-01T04:20:24Z")

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Hi @anon87081067 , have a look at:

> [@Hide popup window](https://community.blaze.today/t/hide-popup-window/22605):
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> Hello! I'm using the urlload command to pull info from a website, and then use a regular expression to get exactly what I want, but I'd like to get rid of the popup window shown by the urlload command. I put the command inside a {note: preview=no}, and it hides the urlload, but it still shows the result from the regular expression. I'd just like it to apply the snippet without any popups. Would that be possible? Or are there any plans to implements this? Thank you