Hi,
I receive the following input John P Maria Do Fred T
I would like to receive the following output each being it’ own value. how can I do that ?
John P
Maria Do
Fred T
Welcome to the Make community!
Are those names, and how do we know whether we should split the names that way instead of this?
John P Maria
Do Fred T
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Hi, Yes they are names
The format in which they come is First name + Last name (1 or 2 letters) All of those separated by spaces.
The format for output Must be: First name [Space] Last name letters, then next value same thing.
like the example below.
John P
Maria Do
Fred T
Thanks for the clarification.
Welcome to the Make community!
You can use a Text Parser “Match Pattern” module with this Pattern (regular expression):
(?<name>\w+\s\w{1,2})
Proof https://regex101.com/r/ZU6bmA/1
Important Info
Global match must be set to YES!
Screenshot
Output
For more information, see Text Parser in the Make Help Center:> 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.
- The complete list of metacharacters can be found on the MDN web docs website.
- For a tutorial on how to create regular expressions, we recommend the RegexOne website.
- For an easy, quick regex generator, try the Regular Expressions generator.
- For experimenting with regular expressions, we recommend the regular expressions 101 website. Just make sure to tick the ECMAScript (JavaScript) FLAVOR in the left panel.
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You can copy and paste this module export into your scenario. This will paste the modules shown in my screenshots above.
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Copy the JSON code below by clicking the copy button when you mouseover the top-right of the code block
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Enter your scenario editor. Press ESC to close any dialogs. Press CTRLV (paste keyboard shortcut for Windows) to paste directly in the canvas.
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{
"subflows": [
{
"flow": [
{
"id": 116,
"module": "util:ComposeTransformer",
"version": 1,
"parameters": {},
"mapper": {
"value": "John P Maria Do Fred T"
},
"metadata": {
"designer": {
"x": 1713,
"y": -1311
},
"restore": {},
"expect": [
{
"name": "value",
"type": "text",
"label": "Text"
}
]
}
},
{
"id": 118,
"module": "regexp:Parser",
"version": 1,
"parameters": {
"pattern": "(?<name>\\w+\\s\\w{1,2})",
"global": true,
"sensitive": true,
"multiline": false,
"singleline": false,
"continueWhenNoRes": false,
"ignoreInfiniteLoopsWhenGlobal": false
},
"mapper": {
"text": "{{116.value}}"
},
"metadata": {
"designer": {
"x": 1954,
"y": -1310,
"messages": [
{
"category": "last",
"severity": "warning",
"message": "A transformer should not be the last module in the route."
}
]
},
"restore": {
"parameters": {
"sensitive": {
"collapsed": true
},
"multiline": {
"collapsed": true
},
"singleline": {
"collapsed": true
},
"continueWhenNoRes": {
"collapsed": true
}
}
},
"parameters": [
{
"name": "pattern",
"type": "text",
"label": "Pattern",
"required": true
},
{
"name": "global",
"type": "boolean",
"label": "Global match",
"required": true
},
{
"name": "sensitive",
"type": "boolean",
"label": "Case sensitive",
"required": true
},
{
"name": "multiline",
"type": "boolean",
"label": "Multiline",
"required": true
},
{
"name": "singleline",
"type": "boolean",
"label": "Singleline",
"required": true
},
{
"name": "continueWhenNoRes",
"type": "boolean",
"label": "Continue the execution of the route even if the module finds no matches",
"required": true
},
{
"name": "ignoreInfiniteLoopsWhenGlobal",
"type": "boolean",
"label": "Ignore errors when there is an infinite search loop",
"required": true
}
],
"expect": [
{
"name": "text",
"type": "text",
"label": "Text"
}
],
"interface": [
{
"type": "text",
"name": "name",
"label": "name"
},
{
"type": "uinteger",
"name": "i",
"label": "i"
},
{
"type": "any",
"name": "__IMTMATCH__",
"label": "Fallback Match"
}
]
}
}
]
}
],
"metadata": {
"version": 1
}
}
Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further issues!
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Thank you very much. that was really helpful
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No problem, glad I could help!
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