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The extract() function is unable to handle the HTML line break tags: <p>, <br>, and <div> (as well as </p>). It parses them as line breaks and does not return the characters.
For example:extract("<b>Text</b>", "<", ">") works correctly, it returns "b" and "/b"extract("<p>Text</p>", "<", ">") returns nothing, but it should be returning "p" and "/p"extract("<div>Text</div>", "<", ">") returns "/div" but not "div"extract("<<p>>Text</p>", "<", ">") returns a line break rather than the text "<p>"
This issue has been reported to the Appian product team. The reference number for this issue is AN-96094.
Use the substitute() function to replace specific HTML tags. To remove them, substitute the values for an empty string. For example:substitute(substitute("<p>Text</p>","<p>",""), "</p>", "")would remove both the <p> and </p> tags.
Additionally, the reduce() function can be used to strip all the undesired HTML characters, as shown below:reduce(fn!substitute(_, _, ""),ri!text,{"<p>", "</p>", "<br>", "<div>", "</div>"})
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