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Posted on by GuyBar 12

Hello

I want to extract 4 consecutive digits (if there are more than 4 digits, I'm not interested), like in this example.

This is my text:
L,:OOULL (1 Job: 610799345 :awFCCCC S/:ORRTTP Or/:2432 OO MORGYAN .
(The text changes all the time)

 

Is there a way to extract only 4 consecutive digits and clean everything else?

Thank you

 

 

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    trice602 15,329 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at
    extract 4 consecutive digits
    Hi there!
     
    Guessing exactly what you were looking for but based on your text, I only see one 4 digit number so assuming you wanted to exact 2432???
     
    First I split on ":"
     
    split(outputs('Compose_text_input'),':')
     
    Next I get the first 4 digits in [5]
     
    substring(outputs('Compose_split')[5],0,4)
     
    From here, I check if the value is an integer and it will return true or false.
     
    isInt(outputs('Compose_substring')) 
     
     

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    Michael E. Gernaey 52,944 Super User 2025 Season 2 on at
    extract 4 consecutive digits
     
    Just to add in case @trice602 needs to show how to grab more than 1, is it just the one possible all the time, or can it have more than 1?

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