I have a Make scenario that allows me to send an email to a Make custom mailhook which then sends the contents of my email to an Obsidian.md webhook.
My make scenario saves the email sent to a specified folder and names my note with the name of the email’s subject line like so: emailed/{{1.subject}}.md
This works most of the time but if the subject contains a hyphen or an emoji, this will cause my scenario fail and will require me to delete the failed attempt and turn my scenario back on.
How do I escape the value of the {{1.subject}} that is sent to my webhook?
Hi. You can try using the “replace” function for common cases and remove special characters, emojis, hyphens, etc., or create a regular expression for it. Do you have an example of a subject line with these special characters and what you want the final result to be?
Thanks, Helio!
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Any subject line with a “-“ will cause my scenario to crash and require manual deletion of the failed scenario. It looks like emoji will do it too but - are way more common.
Would you mind linking to documentation of the replace functionality? I’m very new to Make.
Empty string is actually a variable you have to use (or you could use “_” since that shouldn’t mess with your filename):
If you have multiple things you want to replace, you will need to nest the replace function (I’d probably start with “:”, “.”, “(” and “)” if you know those are giving you a headache).
