Hi!
I want to split an input who can comes from a form with different delimeters.
Now I have a split only with “,” delimeter but I want to change for any delimeter:
For example:
input1, input2 input3; input 4
input 5
In this example the are four different delimeters: comma, space, semicolon and break line.
Please, help!
Thanks in advance.
You’ll need to use a Text Parser Match Pattern module with a regular expression if your string contains multiple delimiters.
Thanks @samliew! Got it.
What could be the regular expression for these delimeters: comma, space, semicolon, line break and new line?
Are you certain you want to split by spaces?
Then your example
input1, input2 input3; input 4
input 5
Will turn out to have seven matches, not the five you were expecting
You can use a Text Parser “Match Pattern” module with this regular expression pattern
[^,\s;\n]+?(?=[,\s;\n]+|$)
Regex test: https://regex101.com/r/ifYVY1
Global match must be set to YES!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!