I am using Zapier to extract data from trello and store them in a google sheet spreadsheet. I mostly used regular expressions and it mostly works.
However, I tried to used the positive lookbehind in Formatter but it doesn’t seem to be working.
What I want is to get numbers after a specific character (:).
Here is my string :
3 dirigeants
Vendredi : 2, Jeudi : 3, Mercredi : 1, Mardi : 2
Here’s what I wrote :
(?<= :)\d+
Maybe I made a mistake but I can’t see it… by any chance can someone try to help be understand ?
Thank you very much !
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Hi @Hana_ha ,
If your string always looks like the above, I think you have a small little error here. It looks like you are missing a space after the : sign. Should be like this:
(?<= : )\d+
Does this help you?
~Bjorn
Hello @ForYourIT ,
Thank you for you anwser.
Indeed it works better with the space, thank you very much ! I didn’t even notice it :(
However, I only have the first number in my spreadsheet. Does it means that I can’t have all the numbers in one row ?
Hi @Hana_ha I am not sure what kind of workflow you have.
You say you use Trello, but is this information all in 1 card in 1 line? What is the current result & what are your expectations? Having a screenshot of your setup makes it a lot easier as well.
Let me know! ~Bjorn
@ForYourIT , you’re right I am sorry I should have put screenshots earlier.
Here is a screenshot of what I have in my card and everything is extracted in the same row:
I used 3 different regex to extract the 3 parts of the title and put them in 3 different columns
I extracted the labels name in one column
I extracted the 3 from ‘3 dirigeants’ with a regex
Here is a screenshot of what I currently have a my spreadsheet :
And I would like to have all the different numbers extracted from that card in the red cell named ‘NOMBRE PARTICIPANTS’.
Here is my setup, I hope it is easier to understand now.
Thank you Bjorn for your time !
Hi @Hana_ha ,
It looks like you might need a loop that iterates threw the matches and adds it to an array. In this case, I would advise you to talk to a Zapier expert or anyone else with this knowledge. Something like :
const matches = myString.matchAll(regex); var matchExtracts = ];
for (const match of matches) { matchExtracts.push(match); ... }
would be needed. I don't want to direct you in any way, so feel free to try it out yourself ;) If you need any advise or assistance feel free to send me a message.
Hope this helps you!
~Bjorn
Hello @ForYourIT ,
Thank you very much for your answer !
I tried out maaany things and thanks to you, as you pointed me in the right direction, I finally have what I want.
I finally used the ‘Code by Zapier’ action as it was what worked best here and did a little thing in Python (after several tests and errors). But I will definitly try again with something like what you wrote so that I can know both ways to do it.
This is what I have now, if it can help someone someday…
Basically, I extracted all the numbers, converted them from str to int and add these numbers together to have the result in my spreadsheet.