Remove items from array

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Hi there
So when I send a query, I get back a link within an array as such:

value: [“https://app-storage-service.pipefy.com/v1/signed/uploads/4403bfa7-5abe-421a-a738-7f916e5549fc/Descriptiveart-flash-02.jpg?expires_on=1683639206&signature=K8ZxPlwi8hCvD%2BapQrg1k1dy0Lr%2B2iJK3xlkHPfXHwE%3D”]

Then it gives me the array value of:

  • array_value: uploads/4403bfa7-5abe-421a-a738-7f916e5549fc/Descriptiveart-flash-02.jpg

But that is only part of my array

I want to be able to get JUST the link out (https://app-storage-service.pipefy.com/v1/signed/uploads/4403bfa7-5abe-421a-a738-7f916e5549fc/Descriptiveart-flash-02.jpg?expires_on=1683639206&signature=K8ZxPlwi8hCvD%2BapQrg1k1dy0Lr%2B2iJK3xlkHPfXHwE%3D)

Any help on removing? I tried an iterator but got nothing :confused:

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Hi @Jason_Blignaut,

Can you please share how your output of the HTTP module looks like?

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Hi @Runcorn

It is only a link. It is a query to pipefy to get an attachment which returns back a link within the array

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Please do correct me if I am not understanding this correctly, So you want to grab,

uploads/4403bfa7-5abe-421a-a738-7f916e5549fc/Descriptiveart-flash-02.jpg

From this,

https://app-storage-service.pipefy.com/v1/signed/uploads/4403bfa7-5abe-421a-a738-7f916e5549fc/Descriptiveart-flash-02.jpg?expires_on=1683639206&signature=K8ZxPlwi8hCvD%2BapQrg1k1dy0Lr%2B2iJK3xlkHPfXHwE%3D

If this is the case, then what you want to do is,

  1. Replace the https://app-storage-service.pipefy.com/v1/signed with emptystring, assuming that it will always be constant
  2. Split the Resultant String and grab the first element

You can use the following formula to do this,

{{first(split(replace(2.mainURL; “https://app-storage-service.pipefy.com/v1/signed”; emptystring); “?”))}}

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Hey @Runcorn

no, what I am wanting to grab is that entire link itself: https://app-storage-service.pipefy.com/v1/signed/uploads/4403bfa7-5abe-421a-a738-7f916e5549fc/Descriptiveart-flash-02.jpg?expires_on=1683639206&signature=K8ZxPlwi8hCvD%2BapQrg1k1dy0Lr%2B2iJK3xlkHPfXHwE%3D

It is currently nested within an array. It is represented as [“link here”]. So it sits within the square brackets and the semi colons. I need it out of there. But every time I pull its array value, it keeps giving me “uploads/4403bfa7-5abe-421a-a738-7f916e5549fc/Descriptiveart-flash-02.jpg”. I do not want that. I want the full url. just without the square brackets and semi colons

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So this is what I am currently getting. But I want that entire link, not just the one section

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Hi @Jason_Blignaut

That appears to be a plain string, so a regex can work.

Since it’s a URL, we can assume that we can replace all occurrences of ", [ and ] since any occurrences within the string would normally have been encoded.

Try this approach: replace via regex all occurrences of these three characters.
{{replace(2.originalLink; "/[\[""\]]/g"; emptystring)}}

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It looks very much like an array, but it’s not an array on Make side. On make side it appears to have arrived as a simple String

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Hey @Loopz

Thanks for all that. I tried your method and it was still not working strangely so what I did rather was use the Open AI module to just remove those values and it returned successfully :slight_smile:

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Hi @Jason_Blignaut

If you have time, can you still try this?

Instead of performing this replacement:
{{replace(2.originalLink; "/[\[""\]]/g"; emptystring)}}

Do this replacement:
{{replace(2.originalLink; "/[\[“\]]/g"; emptystring)}}

The reason is that the double quote in your example “ is slightly different than a regular double quote ", at least what you pasted in your original post

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