I have around 5-6 modules, but many more to add (probably 20ish)
My question is the following: is there a way to rewrite the scenario so that I don’t have to create a Text Parser/Match Pattern module for each piece of data I want to extract? In other words would there be a way to loop the search and have the Regex change every time an operation is launched based on a list of regex I input? The output could be a Json with all the data corresponding to each Regex
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Madame, Monsieur,
Monsieur JAMES MAKE souhaite s’inscrire à la session 25.011 du 01/01/2025 au 31/05/2025 de l’action Prévention, dépistage et suivi des cancers cutanés par le médecin généraliste, Programme intégéré (E-learning) référence(92622425377).
Vous trouverez ci-dessous ses coordonnées et références :
Profession : Médecin
Spécialité : Médecine générale
Courriel : james.make@wanadoo.fr
Frais pédagogiques pris en charge par l’Agence du DPC* : 731.5 €
N° RPPS : 10002866860
I have extracted the following data with Text parsers and Regex in them :
First name (James)
Last name (Make)
Session number (25.001)
Start date
End Date
“référence”
“Profession”
“Spécialité”
“Courriel”
“Frais pédagogiques pris en charge par l’Agence du DPC*”
“N° RPPS”
Here is a screenshot to the scenario. As you can see I have put in series several modules manually to extract each data point
My question is the following: is there a way to loop the scenario on one module with the Regex formula as a variable changing every time the loop is entered with a new input (First name, last name, session number, start date etc.)? I could imagine creating a gsheet database where I have all the data I want to extract in one column and the associated Regex in a another column that would be what the loop would run on.
In my case I was able to manually create all the Text parsers module but in a case I have more (which had happened to me) I want to be able to scale this scenario and not to need to manually create all the modules. For example, over 20 modules it gets really tedious.
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.
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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Global match must be set to NO!