I’m trying to filter out HTML that does not include at least two incidents of a specific word (in this case ‘Dylan’) and I got this recommended regex expression from ChatGPT:
(?i)(?:.*\bDylan\b){2}
I’m using it in filters with Matches Pattern - except it does not work. If I get rid of the Regex and just filter for the word ‘Dylan’ it works, but there are so many articles that name-check Dylan that I need to filter down for those that use the word at least twice.
Is that RegEx wrong? Is there some other way to do this? I’m doing an HTTP pull of the HTML (which works fine) and using a Text Parser to strip the HTML (which also works) and I’ve tried using the filter against the HTTP raw data or the post HTML data, neither works reliably even regardless of the word count.
Any suggestions appreciated.
You can use
{{lower(7.text)}}
Matches pattern
\bdylan\b.+\bdylan\b
Proof: https://regex101.com/r/qJd2CY/1
For more information, see Text Parser in the Make Help Center for more information about regex patterns:
Match Pattern
The Match pattern module enables you to find and extract string elements matching a search pattern from a given text. The search pattern is a regular expression (aka regex or regexp), which is a sequence of characters in which each character is either a metacharacter, having a special meaning, or a regular character that has a literal meaning.
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Thanks. So the two versions of \bdylan\ are making sure there are at least two occurrences of that word?
Yes.
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