I am trying to use Formatter>Text>Split Text to split a single field into multiple columns. This works currently with a comma set as the delimiter but later when I tested the parsing with a field with a comma in it, it split that one field into two separate columns in error.
Here’s what the originating data looks like when I click to select it in Zapier:
And here’s what the output looks using only a comma as the delimiter, once it has been sent to a Google sheet:
You can see that the first row of data came over fine but on the second one I filled out the form with a comma in the first two fields (in the source program) and when Zapier captured it then processed in “Split Text”, it split the fields at that comma, resulting in 4 columns where there should only be 2, pushing the rest out to the right.
Is there any way to split this out more accurately with a better delimiter or a different function besides Split Text? I tried splitting by “],t“ and also “,” and ‘”,”’ but all of these are not resulting in any split columns.
If I specify no delimiter, the data gets sent to the google sheet as a single string WITH commas but WITHOUT the brackets and quotes.
Seems like with it showing those fields like it is in “Input” I should be able to split it better but I’m not sure how to do this? If I could, I’d just change the delimiter on the source application but I don’t have that flexibility. Any help would be appreciated!! I feel like I’m starting to understand the power of Zapier but I need someone to teach me the ways of the force. Thanks! - Joshua