is there any way to use (and register) a jinja custom filter inside dbt? I would like to slugify some col names (we generate dynamic col from row’s values.

Although this still isn’t possible (and comes up from time to time), we have made good progress on knocking off the sorts of things that make them particularly necessary. dbt now includes native support for: the re regex module (in v0.19.0), which enabled slugify in dbt-utils zip , set and iterto…

Creating a custom jinja filter

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aiguofer July 22, 2020, 6:06pm 3

Looking for exactly the same thing… want a regex_replace for this. Looks like there was a GH issue that’s been closed for now.

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