How to parse field to extract email address and display mailto link

a!richTextDisplayField(
  value: a!richTextItem(
    text: extract("Bilbo Baggins <Bilbo.Baggins@TheShire.org>", " ", "<"),
    link: a!safeLink(
      uri: "mailto:" & extract("Bilbo Baggins <Bilbo.Baggins@TheShire.org>", "<", ">")
    )   
  )
)

a!richTextDisplayField(
  value: a!richTextItem(
    text: extract("Bilbo Baggins <Bilbo.Baggins@TheShire.org>", " ", "<"),
    link: a!safeLink(
      uri: "mailto:" & extract("Bilbo Baggins <Bilbo.Baggins@TheShire.org>", "<", ">")
    )   
  )
)

First, thank you for your help!

The mailto:link is returning correctly, but the display name is not showing the string to the left of the "<"  properly.

For example:

Joseph Nault <Joseph.Nault@tn.gov> ---> link displays as "Nault Nault".. 

Here's the code:

Screenshot of the result 

Sorry, the "Bilbo" looks so similar to "Baggins" so that I missed this ...

I changed the code a bit:

a!localVariables(
  local!email: "Bilbo Baggins <Bilbo.Baggins@TheShire.org>",
  a!richTextDisplayField(
    value: a!richTextItem(
      text: mid(local!email, 1, find(" <", local!email)),
      link: a!safeLink(
        uri: "mailto:" & extract(local!email, "<", ">")
      )   
    )
  )
)

> extract("Bilbo Baggins <Bilbo.Baggins@TheShire.org>", " ", "<"),

By my math, that would evaluate to a text value of "Baggins " - is that the intent?

(i guess it doubles it based on the fact that there are 2 copies of the "start delimiter" i.e. a blank space)

mid() seems like a reasonable approach - my old trick, though, when wanting a more carefully guided "extract", is to prepend a special delimiter string (something unlikely/impossible to ever appear in the actual string itself) --

Magic Mike! A great trick!

How do I get just the 1st element of a split?

don't use split() for this.  See my and Stefan's other replies above.

a!richTextDisplayField(
  value: a!richTextItem(
    text: a!localVariables(
      local!fullString: fv!row['recordType!{a7958e69-8bde-42a9-a773-23e5104be70a}HAP Application.fields.{f3a77ebb-d7b9-4ec4-bd04-674ed104e96e}technicalPointOfContact'],
      extract(
        "--beginning--" & local!fullString,
        "g--",
        " <"
      )
    ),
    link: a!safeLink(
      uri: "mailto://" & extract(fv!row['recordType!{a7958e69-8bde-42a9-a773-23e5104be70a}HAP Application.fields.{f3a77ebb-d7b9-4ec4-bd04-674ed104e96e}technicalPointOfContact'], "<",">")
    )
  )
)

The Requested Record Type Is Not Available Expression evaluation error [evaluation ID = 6CT8A] at function a!recordList: A grid component [label="null"] has an invalid value for "columns". A grid column [label="Technical Contact"] has encountered an error. Expression evaluation error at function a!safeLink [line 94]: mailto: is not a permitted URI under the configured security rules and cannot be cast to safeUri. (APNX-1-4198-000)

Bah! Most likely because I'm using the unpaid community edition...