# How to reference a field with whitespaces in a Calculator step

**URL:** <https://community.synatic.com/t/how-to-reference-a-field-with-whitespaces-in-a-calculator-step/252>\
**Category:** Calculators\
**Tags:** calculator\
**Created:** [June 15, 2022, 2:45pm UTC](https://community.synatic.com/t/how-to-reference-a-field-with-whitespaces-in-a-calculator-step/252 "2022-06-15T14:45:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![navessa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/community.synatic.com/navessa/32/58_2.png) [@navessa](https://community.synatic.com/u/navessa)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2022, 2:45pm UTC](https://community.synatic.com/t/how-to-reference-a-field-with-whitespaces-in-a-calculator-step/252/1 "2022-06-15T14:45:31Z")

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Illustrated below is a flow where the Record Generator is the source.

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/uploads/synatic/original/1X/e3d4d522dc2d3e6190de9cc0af2393ac4c1fd435.png)

The output of the Record Generator is in the below image. Highlighted are whitespaces in a field.

![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/uploads/synatic/original/1X/4757a2de8197a8db31eacff486f63e700d2b52ec.png)

To reference a field with whitespaces in a Caluclator step, **`input.record["fieldName"]`** is used as shown in the below image.

![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/uploads/synatic/original/1X/5d1060633f8ae12d219fed1a02a52a8377c93bd4.png)

The output is the below image.

![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/uploads/synatic/original/1X/fe016a2c551dca6bbd2e066cc1b46e88f983e0fa.png)