# Data Manipulation through built-in functions

**URL:** <https://community.brightpattern.com/t/data-manipulation-through-built-in-functions/382>\
**Category:** Product Q&A\
**Tags:** variable\
**Created:** [April 21, 2021, 5:32am UTC](https://community.brightpattern.com/t/data-manipulation-through-built-in-functions/382 "2021-04-21T05:32:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![fletcherR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc29f/32.png) [@fletcherR](https://community.brightpattern.com/u/fletcherR)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2021, 5:32am UTC](https://community.brightpattern.com/t/data-manipulation-through-built-in-functions/382/1 "2021-04-21T05:32:40Z")

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I want to change Variables through built-in function (replace)

I want to put a comma between the every collected digits by called user.

ex.)

- “$(cbPhoneX)” is collected digits by called user.

→ =replace("$(cbPhoneX)", “???”, “???”, “ig”)

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**Author:** ![younghun](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.brightpattern.com/younghun/32/164_2.png) [@younghun](https://community.brightpattern.com/u/younghun)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2021, 3:15am UTC](https://community.brightpattern.com/t/data-manipulation-through-built-in-functions/382/2 "2021-04-22T03:15:27Z")

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=replace("$(cbPhoneX)", “”, “,”, “ig”)

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**Author:** ![sergey.menshikov](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.brightpattern.com/sergey.menshikov/32/6_2.png) [@sergey.menshikov](https://community.brightpattern.com/u/sergey.menshikov)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 8:59pm UTC](https://community.brightpattern.com/t/data-manipulation-through-built-in-functions/382/3 "2021-04-23T20:59:32Z")

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Not sure “” would match anything.  
In case it doesn’t:

=replace("$(cbPhoneX)", “(\d)”, “\1,”, “ig”)

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**Author:** ![fletcherR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9fc29f/32.png) [@fletcherR](https://community.brightpattern.com/u/fletcherR)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2021, 1:10am UTC](https://community.brightpattern.com/t/data-manipulation-through-built-in-functions/382/4 "2021-04-26T01:10:34Z")

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Thank you for replying

🙂