Automation Workshop includes the Find Text Action that can search for a specific text or context-specific values in a given text string or file, and retrieve multiple matches for use in other Actions. Support of Regular Expressions (regex) adds another layer of versatility for process automation.
Features & highlights
- To find multiple text lines at once, use the Set Variable Action to define your multi-line string (for Find field), and then simply access your defined custom variable using Variable Wizard.
- Automatically find text using various search criteria—from simple text search to more advanced methods using dynamic values and regular expressions (regex).
- Find out how many times a given text appears in a file or text string.
- Find out at which position the found match is located within the searched text string (or file content).
Usage examples
- Monitor log files for a specific text sequence, and send an email or play a sound as an automated response.
- Use regular expressions to retrieve the list of matching text entities from any structured file, even XML or HTML.
- Find all .txt, .log, .csv, .etc files on the computer, iterate over the files one by one, and search for a pattern in each of the files, all in an automated manner.
Documentation
- Text · Provide both the text to find and where to find it.
- Options · Enable case sensitivity, choose whether to use regex, and specify the maximum number of matches.
Interconnect
- Dynamic variables & Events of the Find Text.
- Variable Wizard and dynamic values of all Text Actions.
- Streamline automation processes by connecting Triggers and Actions using Variable Wizard.
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