Question

Replace and Split Formatters not finding multi-line Find or Separator criteria?

  • 4 October 2021
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I am trying to parse an HTML email into a spreadsheet using this good advice: 

 

However, it seems that formatter is not finding my Split separator when I use multi-line criteria. Same issue when trying to do a Replace with multi-line Find criteria.

Formatter steps that I think *should* work if Zapier would match multi-line criteria are:

ONE:

Split, Second Segment on Separator

<td><strong>Fields marked with an * are required.:

</strong></td>

<td></td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td><strong>

 

 

TWO

Split, All as line-items Segment on Separator:

</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td><strong>

 

THREE

Replace, Find criteria below with “ “

</strong></td>

<td>

 

Basically, none of this works because Zapier does not seem to match on multi-line criteria, despite the example I linked to being multi-line?  I even tried adding [:newline:] after each line break to no avail. Thanks for any guidance this great community can provide!

 

Here’s my HTML:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"

"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html>

<head>

<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8"

http-equiv="Content-Type" />

<title>HTML Email</title>

</head>

<body><table rules="all" style="border-color: #666;"

cellpadding="10">

<tr style="background-color:#393E40;color:white;font-size:14px;">

<td colspan="2">Application &

Agreement</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td><strong>Fields marked with an * are required.:

</strong></td>

<td></td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td><strong>Member-owner First Name: </strong></td>

<td>Joy &</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td><strong>Last Name: </strong></td>

<td>Smith</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td><strong>Address: </strong></td>

<td>12345 W 7th St</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td><strong>City: </strong></td>

<td>Anytown </td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td><strong>State: </strong></td>

<td>XX</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td><strong>Zip/Postal Code: </strong></td>

<td>123456</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td><strong>Phone: </strong></td>

<td>18005551212</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td><strong>Email: </strong></td>

<td>myemail@email.com</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td><strong>Names of other household shoppers: </strong></td>

<td></td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td><strong>I understand by becoming a member-­owner, your name and town will be listed as a member in promotional

material, including on Facebook and on the website, unless I opt out

by checking this box.: </strong></td>

<td></td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td><strong>I understand by becoming a member, the

Co-op will send me periodic email updates, including board election

information, unless I opt out by checking this box.: </strong></td>

<td></td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td><strong>Please tell us how you learned about us.:

</strong></td>

<td></td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td><strong>Electronic signature & verification: </strong></td>

<td>I have read &amp; agree to the above terms.</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td><strong>Today's Date: </strong></td>

<td>12/29/2020</td>

</tr>

<tr>

<td class="footer" height="61" align="left" valign="middle"

colspan="2">

<p style="font-size: 12px; font-weight: normal; margin: 0;

line-height: 16px; padding: 0;">This email was built and sent using <a

href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/visual-form-builder/"

style="font-size: 12px;">Visual Form Builder</a>.</p>

</td>

</tr>

</table>

</body>

</html>

 


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3 replies

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Hi @jbuttimer 

Please post screenshots of how your Zap steps are currently configured, thanks.

 

Alternatively, an advanced approach would be to use a Code step to parse data: https://zapier.com/apps/code/help

 

If you need help, consider hiring a Zapier Expert: https://experts.zapier.com/

Thanks Troy

 

 

 

 

Well, I just used single line criteria to work around this issue. Plus a Remove HTML Tags step and then a Code step inspired by 

to get it into data I could use to create my spreadsheet row.

It took 2 additional steps, but I seem to have what I need. Thanks!