Split and Clean String to Extract Value

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Hi Everyone,

I have an E-Mail Body that looks like this:

E-Mail:
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Dear,

text text text text text

text text text text:
•   irrelevant text 15.11.2024
•   irrelevant text 19.11.2024
•   irrelevant text 21.11.2024
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I want to extract only extracts the dates in red and save each one in different compose to use it later. I do not want to split based on the bullet points "•" as it might change in the future. What I achieved so far is the following array:

[
" 15.11.2024                   ",
"·             irrelevanttext 19.11.2024   ",
"· irrelevanttext 21.11.2024"
]

I split after the first irrlevant text starts an ignore the rest of the e-mail. The problem is that I have spaces after and before each string. and I also have the bulletpoint "·" at the beginning of the string. How can clean each one so I only have dates and store them in different compose?

thanks in advance!

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VictorIvanidze 13,081 on at

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Split by '.2024' and parse each string in the resulting array. Note that the flow will stop worling in 2025.

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Chriddle 8,685 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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The idea is to split your text at <space>. Before that, replace characters like line breaks (or other characters that might be next to your dates) with spaces.
Then filter for items that resemble a date.
Example: length is equal to 10, the third and fifth characters are periods, the first 2 characters are numbers etc.

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split( replace( outputs('Compose'), decodeUriComponent('%0A'), ' ' ), ' ' )

Filter (advanced mode)

@and( equals(length(item()), 10), equals(substring(item(), 2, 1), '.'), equals(substring(item(), 5, 1), '.'), isInt(substring(item(), 0, 2)), isInt(substring(item(), 3, 2)), isInt(substring(item(), 6, 4)) )

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Hi there!

I encountered the same problem last month and created a reusable flow to address it.

Below is the core approach if you want to build it yourself. I’ve also attached a step-by-step PDF with screenshots for a complete walkthrough, should you need it.

Split -> Filter -> Parse

Step	Action	Expression / Setting
1	Compose – Lines	split(triggerOutputs()?['body/body'], decodeUriComponent('%0A'))
2	Filter array – Only date lines	`@contains(item(),'Date -')`
3	Select – Date objects	substring(item(), add(indexOf(item(),'Date -'),7), 10)
4	Apply to each -> Compose - Date	items('Apply_to_each')?['Date']