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

Output Example Payload#

{  "data": "Example"}

Encode Base64#

Convert the input string to base64 encoding | key: encodeBase64

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

Output Example Payload#

{  "data": "<example base64 string>"}

Extract Substring#

Extract a substring from a string | key: slice

Input	Key	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.

Output Example Payload#

{  "data": "Example"}

Find & Replace#

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

Input	Key	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 / Required	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.

Output Example Payload#

{  "data": "Example"}

Join#

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

Input	Key	Notes	Example
Separator string	separator	The character to split or concatenate text on.	/
Strings string	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:

Output Example Payload#

{  "data": "Example"}

Lower Case#

Convert the input string to lower case | key: lowerCase

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

Output Example Payload#

{  "data": "example"}

Match Regex#

Match a string against a regular expression | key: match

Input	Key	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}$
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"].

Output Example Payload#

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

Remove Whitespace#

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

Input	Key	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!".

Output Example Payload#

{  "data": "Example"}

Split String#

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

Input	Key	Notes	Example
Separator string	separator	The character to split or concatenate text on.	/
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"].

Output Example Payload#

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

Upper Case#

Convert the input string to UPPER CASE | key: upperCase

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

Output Example Payload#

{  "data": "EXAMPLE"}