Text Manipulation Component

Perform common operations on strings and arrays of strings

Component key: text-manipulation

Description

The text manipulation component allows you to perform common operations on some text. For example, you can join two or more text strings together with the join action, find text with the match action, replace strings with other strings within a piece of text with the replace function, and more.

Actions

Decode Base64

Convert the input string from base64 encoding | key: decodeBase64

Input	Notes	Example
Base64 Text string / Required text		SGVsbG8sIFByaXNtYXRpYyE=

{
  "data": "Example"
}

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Encode Base64

Convert the input string or file to base64 encoding | key: encodeBase64

Input	Notes	Example
Text or file string / Required text		Hello, world; how are you?

{
  "data": "SGVsbG8sIFByaXNtYXRpYyE="
}

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Extract Substring

Extract a substring from a string | key: slice

Input	Notes	Example
Slice start string / Required sliceStart	The index on which to start the slice of the text.	5
Slice stop string sliceStop	The index on which to stop the slice of the text.	7
Text string / Required text	This is the text to manipulate	Hello, world; how are you?

This action uses the JavaScript slice method to extract substrings from a string.

{
  "data": "Example"
}

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Find & Replace

Find and replace all instances of one substring with another | key: replace

Input	Notes	Example
Substring to find and be replaced string / Required find	This is the substring that is to be replaced.	Hi
The substring to replace instances of 'find' with string replace	The substring to replace instances of 'find' with. Can be a string or regular expression.	Hello
Text string / Required text	This is the text to manipulate	Hello, world; how are you?

This action uses the JavaScript replace method and a regex global flag to replace all instances of find with replace. Find can be a regular expression or a string.

{
  "data": "Example"
}

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Find & Replace Multiple Substrings

Find and replace all instances of multiple substrings with another | key: replaceMultipleSubstring

Input	Notes	Example
Replace With string / Required Key Value List replaceMultiple	Replace
Text string / Required text	This is the text to manipulate	Hello, world; how are you?

{
  "data": "Example"
}

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HTML Decode

Decode HTML-encoded input string | key: htmlDecode

Input	Notes	Example
Text string / Required text	This is the text to manipulate	foo © bar ≠ baz 𝌆 qux

{
  "data": "foo © bar ≠ baz 𝌆 qux"
}

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HTML Encode

Convert input string to HTML-encoded equivalent | key: htmlEncode

Input	Notes	Example
Text string / Required text	This is the text to manipulate	foo © bar ≠ baz 𝌆 qux

{
  "data": "foo © bar ≠ baz 𝌆 qux"
}

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Join

Join strings together using an optional separator to form a single string. | key: join

Input	Notes	Example
Separator string separator	The separator to use to split or concatenate text.	/
Strings string Value List strings	A set of strings to join together into a single string.

This action is helpful when you want to generate messages, file paths, etc., based off of results from several steps.

As an example, suppose you would like to generate a file path of the form:

${bucketName}://${customerName}/items/${itemNumber}.txt

Where bucketName and customerName are config variables, and itemNumber is an output from a previous step. You can reference the config variables, and step output, and place string literals (://, etc) between them:

Consider expression inputs

String concatenation can be done from within an input using template inputs

{
  "data": "Example"
}

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Join Lines

Join strings together with a newline character | key: joinLines

Input	Default	Notes	Example
Newline type string / Required newlineType		The type of newline to use.
Number of newlines string / Required numberOfNewlines	1	The number of newlines to insert.	2
Strings string Value List strings		A set of strings to join together into a single string.

The Join Lines action is used to join strings together with one or multiple newline characters. This action is particularly useful when you need to combine multiple lines of text into a single text block with line breaks.

As an example, suppose you're building an integration workflow for a data export task. You have a list of data records, and you want to format these records into a CSV (Comma-Separated Values) string for easy export. Each data record is represented as a string, and you need to concatenate them with commas as column separators and newline characters as row separators.

["John,Doe,30","Alice,Smith,25","Bob,Johnson,35"]

Now, you want to create a CSV string from these data records. You use the "Join Lines" action as follows:

Use the Strings input to add the lines. Example: John,Doe,30. Use the Newline type input to set the type of newline to use, LF for Unix systems or CRLF for Windows systems. Use the Number of newlines to add the number of newlines between each line of strings.

Example output using 1 newline:

John,Doe,30
Alice,Smith,25
Bob,Johnson,35

{
  "data": "Line1\nLine2"
}

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Lower Case

Convert the input string to lower case | key: lowerCase

Input	Notes	Example
Text string / Required text	This is the text to manipulate	Hello, world; how are you?

{
  "data": "example"
}

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Match Regex

Match a string against a regular expression | key: match

Input	Default	Notes	Example
Regex string / Required regex		A regular expression to match against the text that is supplied.	^[A-Z0-9._%+-]{1,64}@(?:[A-Z0-9-]{1,63}\.){1,125}[A-Z]{2,63}$
Regex Flags string regexFlags	g	Flags to apply to the regular expression. For example, you can specify 'd' to ensure capture groups are returned. See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Regular_expressions#advanced_searching_with_flags
Text string / Required text		This is the text to manipulate	Hello, world; how are you?

This action applies the Javascript match method to the text you input with a regex global flag.

For example, if you enter The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. It barked. as your text input, and [A-Z] as your regular expression, this action will return the list ["T","I"].

{
  "data": [
    "Example Match 1",
    "Example Match 2"
  ]
}

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Remove Whitespace

Remove leading and trailing whitespace from a string | key: trim

Input	Notes	Example
Text string / Required text	This is the text to manipulate	Hello, world; how are you?

This action will remove leading and trailing whitespace, converting something like " This is a test! " to "This is a test!".

{
  "data": "Example"
}

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Split Lines

Split a block of text on newline characters (\n) | key: splitLines

Input	Default	Notes	Example
Filter Blank Lines boolean filterBlankLines	true	Filter blank lines (like trailing newlines)
Text string / Required text		This is the text to manipulate	My first line My second line My third line

{
  "data": [
    "My first line",
    "My second line",
    "My third line"
  ]
}

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Split String

Split a string into a list of strings on a separator character | key: split

Input	Notes	Example
Separator string separator	The separator to use to split or concatenate text.	/
Text string / Required text	This is the text to manipulate	Hello, world; how are you?

This action is useful to split a string into a list of strings. For example, given a string /usr/local/lib/python3 and separator /, this action produces ["usr","local","lib","python3"].

{
  "data": [
    "Example Part 1",
    "Example Part 2"
  ]
}

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Upper Case

Convert the input string to UPPER CASE | key: upperCase

Input	Notes	Example
Text string / Required text	This is the text to manipulate	Hello, world; how are you?

{
  "data": "EXAMPLE"
}

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