Enclosed Text · Options

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The Options tab of Enclosed Text Action allows you to finetune how to extract text that is located between two tags. It is possible to ignore a text case, use the extended search patterns, and start looking for enclosed text only after the specified first match.

Options	Details
Ignore case	When enabled, upper and lower case text will be treated as equivalent (the same). When disabled, search will treat upper and lower case characters as distinct (different).
Search only after first occurrence of	Specify a text substring, symbol, or tag to start looking for enclosed text only after this specified occurrence.
Use extended search patterns	Enables the extended search symbols: * · matches any substring that is zero or more characters long. ? · matches any (exactly one) character. To search for the asterisk or question mark while the extended search patterns are enabled: ** · matches exactly one asterisk character. *? · matches exactly one question mark character. Example. When searching for extended patterns… <p*> · matches <p>, <p id="main">, <p data-x>, etc. <?> · matches <b>, <i>, <p>, etc. What*? · matches only the What? sequence. 5** rating · matches only the 5* rating sequence. Regular expressions are available for the Find Text Action which can extract enclosed text similarly to the Enclosed Text Action.
Perform narrow search	By default the narrow (non-greedy) search is performed—to extract as few characters as possible. This behavior is useful to extract many similar items from text or list. To capture the widest possible match, uncheck the narrow search option. Example. Searching for text substrings enclosed in parentheses on input data: (Book 1) (Book 2) (Book 3) The narrow search would return three separate list items: Book 1, Book 2, Book 3 The wide search would return only one single item: Book 1) (Book 2) (Book 3
Capture search wrappers	Includes the surrounding search markers/patterns in the captured variables. This is especially useful when using the extended search patterns to capture dynamic data, if you need to process or re-use the extracted data later. Example. Extracting IDs from an XML file with search params after and before, respectively: <id*> and </id> within text snippet: …<id cat="A">17</id>…<id cat="D">21</id>… When the capture search wrappers is unchecked: 17 and 21 Including search wrappers into variables: <id cat="A">17</id> and <id cat="D">21</id>
Also, store result in	The result of the extract operation is already accessible via the Variable Wizard. Optionally, choose an existing variable to store the result. To create an empty variable, use the Set Variable Action.
Variable Wizard	Use dynamic data input—substitute a parameter from a file, web, connected Trigger, other Actions, date and time presets, etc.
This Action is enabled	An Action is executed only if it is enabled. Otherwise, it will be automatically skipped (completely ignored) from the Task flow.
Use custom display name	Rename this Action, to make a human-readable workflow that will help you to find, read, and make sense of the Task structure later.
Advanced fallback options	Manage the advanced fallback options—select which error types will lead to automatic execution of predefined workaround operations.
Log only errors	Do not log information and warning messages for this Action. It may be useful to keep the log file small and tidy on production systems.

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