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Extract a substring from the Input File Name

pthekko
5 - Atom

Dear Community

 

I'm trying hard to understand how to do this. As my input file name is too long, I want the output file name to have some strings from the original file name. "FileName" is available.

 

Should I use RegEx tool or Regex in Formula?

 

Input file name will be: VK-29698-AA36718 PT-210120-21687 -E L1-DB1131693-PLG_Result-DB-DeepDiveScanX_2021-02-15_070319.xlsx

Output file name should look like: PT-210120-21687 DeepDiveScanX_2021-02-15_070319.xlsx

 

Conditions here are

- there will be always "PT" followed by "-", following by date (always 6 numbers) followed by "-", followed by any length of numbers. e.g.PT-YYMMDD-n*

- the text DeepDiveScanX will be also there and the rest should be until the file type extension. So basically DeepDiveScanX until the dot

 

Thanks a lot

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messi007
15 - Aurora
15 - Aurora

@pthekko,

 

Please see below:

 

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Attached the workflow,

 

Hope this helps!

Regards,

pthekko
5 - Atom

yep that worked! Thanks for quick reply!

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