gn:act_getTextByRegex

Description

Action is used to get text value which can be a substring or entire value from source and store it into to a target.

Action returns

void

Action signatures

[gn:act_getTextByRegex]|[source,target,regex]

[gn:act_getTextByRegex]|[source,target,regex,matchNumber]

Parameter	Description
source	source from which value will be used. Valid source: text
target	target to which "regexed" value will be stored. Valid target: text
regex	target Regular expression pattern which is used on source value to extract whole or part of text value. Valid target: text
(optional) matchNumber	matchNumber number of match from which we want to extract text (in case there is more matches by regex pattern), by default first match will be returned (0) if this value is ommited. If number is bigger than count of matches that are returned null will be stored into target. If parameter is omitted value 0 is used. Valid value: Integer numerical value, i.e. 1, 2,...10

Example

initial target value

@variable/target =

variables.xml

<variable id="textualSourceValue" type="text" defaultValue="">this is my text|with some other stuff|and some more stuff|which needs to be stored into somewhere|soome as other |</variable>
<variable id="target" type="text" defaultValue=""></variable>

strings.xml

<string name="pattern">(.+?)\|</string>

screen.xml

<FrameLayout
    android:id="@+id/exampleFrame"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:visibility="gone"
    gn:act_set="[gn:act_getTextByRegex]|[@variable/textualSourceValue,@variable/target,@string/pattern,1]" />

after action execution target

@variable/target = with some other stuff

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