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

Output Example Payload

{  "data": "Example"}

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Encode Base64

Convert the input string to base64 encoding | key: encodeBase64

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

Output Example Payload

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

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Extract Substring

Extract a substring from a string | key: slice

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

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

Output Example Payload

{  "data": "Example"}

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Find & Replace

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

Input	Notes	Example
Input Substring to find and be replaced string / Required	Notes This is the substring that is to be replaced.	Example Hi
Input The substring to replace instances of 'find' with string / Required	Notes The substring to replace instances of 'find' with. Can be a string or regular expression.	Example Hello
Input Text string / Required	Notes This is the text to manipulate	Example 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"}

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HTML Decode

Decode HTML-encoded input string | key: htmlDecode

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

Output Example Payload

{  "data": "foo © bar ≠ baz 𝌆 qux"}

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HTML Encode

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

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

Output Example Payload

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

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

Output Example Payload

{  "data": "Example"}

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Lower Case

Convert the input string to lower case | key: lowerCase

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

Output Example Payload

{  "data": "example"}

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Match Regex

Match a string against a regular expression | key: match

Input	Notes	Example
Input Regex string / Required	Notes A regular expression to match against the text that is supplied.	Example ^[A-Z0-9._%+-]{1,64}@(?:[A-Z0-9-]{1,63}\.){1,125}[A-Z]{2,63}$
Input Text string / Required	Notes This is the text to manipulate	Example 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"  ]}

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Remove Whitespace

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

Input	Notes	Example
Input Text string / Required	Notes This is the text to manipulate	Example 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"}

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Split String

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

Input	Notes	Example
Input Separator string	Notes The separator to use to split or concatenate text.	Example /
Input Text string / Required	Notes This is the text to manipulate	Example 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"  ]}

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Upper Case

Convert the input string to UPPER CASE | key: upperCase

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

Output Example Payload

{  "data": "EXAMPLE"}

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