Grouping multiple "Text Parser - replace" nodes, or alternative?

[Romain_cote]

Hello, I have a scenario in which I am using a chain of 12 “Text parser - replace” modules. I use them to turn each month of the year from French language into English language to create google calendar events from emails I receive (in French).

as you can tell from my screengrab, it’s looking a bit cumbersome at the moment and I was wondering if:

• there is a way to “group” all these modules together to clear the visual clutter a little bit when looking at the general scenario.
• even more efficently, is there a way to do a text parser - replace with multiple entries, a bit like a dictionnary?

Thanks a lot in advance for your help!

Event Calendar Résa Communauto.blueprint.json (106.1 KB)

[samliew]

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[Romain_cote]

Hello again, sorry I had forgotten to attach the screengrab. I edited the original message and also added the scenario blueprint.

Thanks a lot!

[samliew]

You can use and chain the built-in replace function in a single Set Variable / Compose a String module.

• replace
  replace(text; search string; replacement string)

The function may have also been covered in the Make Academy tutorials — refer to the Make Academy Course Overview for more info.

Here’s an example of how you can use the function:

{{ replace(replace(text; search; replacement); search; replacement) }}

e.g.:

{{ replace(replace(1.text; "/pattern/"; emptystring); "/pattern2/"; emptystring) }}

^{(copy-paste the above into the field, or type it exactly as shown)}

Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues.

— @samliew

[Romain_cote]

@samliew

{{ replace(replace(text; search; replacement); search; replacement) }}

Thanks a lot! I managed to make it work (didn’t even need the setVariable in the end), although it took me a while to type the whole thing with no mistakes
I tried to use a text editor but for some reason some things seemed to be getting lost along the way when pasting it back into the expression.

Do you have any tips for writing expressions, do you use a special editor?

EDIT: woops, had left a useless router here. It’s gone now.