Locating CR's / LF's in an email text string

[stevek]

Hi all,

I'm in the process of creating a flow that will read out loud a received email.

Accessing the received email contents is straightforward by using the system variable: "notification_text".
However, the problem I'm trying to overcome is that "notification_text" displays the entire contents of the email as just a single string ... whereas I'd like to separate the single string of text back into it's original multiple line format.

E.g. The "notification_text" string contains the following:
"John Test This is a test email"
(where "John" = senders name, "Test" = email subject and "This is a test email" = email body).

But if I view "notification_text" in AM's text editor, I see the contents displayed like this:

John
Test
This is a test email

which is exactly what I need.


Obviously, AM's text editor is able to detect the embedded CR's / LF's hidden within the string "John Test This is a test email" and split it into individual lines.

So my question is whether there's some way that I can manually process the "notification_text" variable by searching for CR / LF occurrences and split the single string back into individual strings ?

Thanks in advance,

Steve

[kintrupf]

I didn't try it, but a Script action with something like

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lines = split(notification_text, "\\r?\\n");

might work. The resulting variable "lines" is a list which should contain the separate lines of the mail.

[stevek]

Many thanks ... that example of yours worked perfectly !

[skiptannen]

stevek:

This looks to be really useful for me, but for some reason I'm not able to get it to work using the example. Would you mind posting your flow?

Also, I know that you can view global variables in the AM text editor, but I was not aware that you could view a local variable. Would you mind telling me how that's done? Hopefully I'm not just missing something obvious...

Thanks very much.

[angelatwork]

If you use the debug dialog in your flow, you then can push the local variable in the debug window and choose to show in editor. Hope this helps.

[skiptannen]

That's good to know - thanks very much.

[skahlhoefer]

Hi angleatwork,

could you explain what is meant by the debug dialog? Where do I find vor activate this?
I have looked in the flow and global menus as well as the list of available actions but without success.
As oft today I log all my variables to debug a flow but maybe this dialog would be more helpful.

Stefan

[Martin]

Hi,

You can find the Debug Dialog in the list of conditions.
The condition displays a dialog with all available local and global variables at the time when the condition is executed. You can also manually modify the values of the local variables by tapping on a variable and selecting Change value. The buttons of the dialog can be used to continue the flow on the true- or false-branch of the condition.

Regards,
Martin