Hi.
I am running a query list to pick up an email , it is stored in a collection. I found if i tried using it in an email it failed. Having looked at the collection with log to history it produces [email@blah.com]. The [] are the issue. I found that if i use For each and set the output value to a variable (person) then it works. However if the field i am looking at in the first place has the option of multiple people then the collection output is [[email@blah.com]]. So the option i used prior does not work as it only strips the first [].
Soooo I then used a "get from collection" creating a new collection that now only has [email@blah.com] which i can use in my For Each.
This works (took me many hours of fiddle) however there is no need for the for each loop beyond stripping the []. There must be an easier way to strip the [] or [[]] from my initial collection.
I suspect it may be a regular expression but have no idea how.
Help appreciated
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Hi,
The regular expression would look like this:
[^0-9a-zA-Z\.@]
It looks for any letter, number full stop and @ and ignores them which only leaves [ ] which are replaced with spaces.
Thank you, i tried that and it has given me ["","","","email@blah.com","","",""]
Thank you. This worked, the (replace substring). I think i would rather replace string as it would be one step meaning I will stay under the limit of steps more often :), however this saves a great deal of faf.