"FindText" Action Block

[Dm114]

Finds all occurrences of a string in a list or a text line by line (like a ".TXT" file). Search can be case sensitive or not.

INPUT variables:
• SourceText: string containing the original text to browse
• StringToSearch: string containing the piece of text or characters to be searched for (can be any combination of any kind of character or emoji)
• CaseSensitive: boolean indicator to make search case sensitive. Default: False=case INsensitive
• RegexExcl: optional string to skip line headers (i.e. this pattern at the beginning of each line won't be included in the search process). This string must follow Regex rules.

OUTPUT variable:
• FoundText: string filled with all lines containing the searched string. Empty if no match found.

The macro "Tst" is provided to illustrate how "FindText" Action Block works to find any character or string in a text. As an example, the original text here is a list of local TV channels.

https://www.macrodroidlink.com/macrostore?id=19322

Enjoy!

 

[Dm114]

I updated the Action Block because it didn't recognize Carriage Return as an End Of Line in the SourceText input variable.

 

[Dm114]

Finds all occurrences of a string in a list or a text line by line (like a ".TXT" file). Search can be case sensitive or not.

INPUT variables:
• SourceText: string containing the original text to browse
• StringToSearch: string containing the piece of text or characters to be searched for (can be any combination of any kind of character or emoji)
• CaseSensitive: boolean indicator to make search case sensitive. Default: False=case INsensitive
• RegexExcl: optional string to skip line headers (i.e. this pattern at the beginning of each line won't be included in the search process). This string must follow Regex rules.

OUTPUT variable:
• FoundText: string filled with all lines containing the searched string. Empty if no match found.

The macro "Tst" is provided to illustrate how "FindText" Action Block works to find any character or string in a text. As an example, the original text here is a list of local TV channels.

https://www.macrodroidlink.com/macrostore?id=19322

Enjoy!

It's now possible to make a string search on an array (see updated description in "FindText" Action Block).

A new output variable has been added as follows:

OUTPUT variables (only one of them is mandatory):
• FoundText: string filled with all lines containing the searched string. Empty if no match found
• FoundArray: array containing all matched lines. Each line stored in the array items from index 0 to N. Empty if no match found.

Input "SourceText" can contain an array. To exclude index numbers (of the form "[index]: ") from search process, set "RegexExcl" to "\[\d+\]:\s". Otherwise, if "StringToSearch" contains only digits or a string of the "[n]: " form, indexes will be included in the search process.