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Is it possible to search for 40+ different words in a piece of text?

  • June 14, 2024
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Essentially I am attempting to pull specific names out of a written review in order to automate our tracking of reviews of employees.

Is it possible to feed 40 different names in, have Zapier search the text for those names, and pull the ones if:true? Zap AI says I would need to create a regular expression that includes all 40 patterns, but I'm not sure how to do this. I have been able to make it work one name at a time, but it feels overzealous to set up 40 different formatters for each name. Any help on how to set this up is greatly appreciated!

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Troy Tessalone
Zapier Orchestrator & Solution Partner
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  • Zapier Orchestrator & Solution Partner
  • June 15, 2024

Hi @marlyd 

Possible approaches:

  • Looping + Formatter + Filter
    • Loop thru the list of names to check
    • Filter for found matches
  • Code
    • JavaScript or Python can be used in custom code logic