Text: Find numbers

Use this action to find numbers in a text field and save them to a data table.

Use Case

The Text: Find numbers action can find and isolate numbers from a text field, which can then be used later in a Workflow. This can automate the need to read documents containing text and numbers, especially if the numbers are needed elsewhere.

How to configure this action

Fields for this action

• Text to search

  • The text to be parsed
  • You will most likely use a reference field, in {{field-name}} format, with information gathered in a previous task or part of the Workflow, like an email trigger.

• Output Field Prefix

  • To help keep output fields organized, choose an output field prefix to add to the beginning of each output field name as this action may output more than one field.
  • The step’s name is used as the prefix by default.

What will this output?

This action may generate multiple fields. To help keep output fields organized, the prefix above will be added to the beginning of each of the output field names, separated by two dashes. Each field will result as:{{output-field-prefix--output-field}}. Learn more

Output fields for this action

• Data table

  • This action will produce a data table with the numbers found in a data table with the field name defined in Return field name. The table will have 3 columns.

  • Number	Character Row	Character Column
    Each number found in the search	The row the number was found in	How far into the row the number was found

• Number of Numbers Found

  • The number of matches found.

• First Match

  • The first match.