Parse Text String - Line Breaks

RE: Parse Text String - Line Breaks

Mike Schmitt — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 15:22:05 GMT

What is your end goal in particular? In such cases I've sometimes found it useful to use the "split" function and split on linebreaks, which will result in an array of items each of which being the text entries in between linebreaks (which would include blank lines, you'd need to deal with separately).

i.e. split( ri!incomingText, char(10) )

Also be aware that depending on the source of the incoming text, sometimes a linebreak will be a single "char(10)", and sometimes each linebreak will be represented by both char(10) and char(13) (i.e. \r and \n). Text entered directly into Appian won't use char(13), but text from external sources might have it. You might need to take this into account when implementing your solution depending on your use case and the source of your incoming text.

RE: Parse Text String - Line Breaks

Robert Shankin — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 14:24:48 GMT

What will you do when you've found them all?

RE: Parse Text String - Line Breaks

justinp821 — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 14:20:32 GMT

Hi Robert, I've tried fn!find but it looks like it only returns the first match, not every match.

RE: Parse Text String - Line Breaks

Robert Shankin — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 14:08:33 GMT

fn!find(
  fn!char(10),
  "firstName
  
  firstName lastName
  
  companyName
  
  context"
)