I need some help taking emails from Outlook and putting them into a SharePoint list. I currently have Outlook connected along with Sharepoint, but the body of emails are output as HTML so I included a HTML to text parser. This works pretty well.
The problem - some emails include previous messages, not just the most current. I have 2 different strings built that work, but I can’t get them to nest correctly. Please help!
Welcome to the Make community!
You can use the built-in function replace with this pattern:
e.g.:
/\s+(?:From: F3|On.+at.+wrote:)[\w\W]+/i
Proof https://regex101.com/r/nUdrIZ/1
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.
Hope this helps! Let me know if there are any further questions or issues.
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