Hey guys, I’m trying to use the “Matches” activity to find the first word in a string. This first word can be like “alex”, “1234”, “bg1221” or “1234bg”. And the full string can look like this: “`bg134 text text” - from here to extract “bg134” “bg134 text text” - from here to e…

I had to use the “Matches” activity because it was already implemented in the project. What I did: Remove “`” from the string with variableName.Replace(“'”,“”) Used the “Matches” activity with this regex: “^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)”

Regex that finds the first word in a string

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muhammedyuzuak (Muhammed Yuzuak) May 28, 2022, 4:07pm 4

Hi @danielP,

i hope it solves the problem.

extractFirstWord.xaml (6.5 KB)

Regards,
MY

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Regex that finds the first word in a string

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