Advanced extract from left

Hello,

Does anybody know the command in advanced extraction so the Robot starts searching the text/input from the left instead from the right?

I guess there is a command like this but I can't find any information this reagarding in the user guide/Google.

Thanks in advance for any input.


Piotr

P10TR wrote:Hello,

Does anybody know the command in advanced extraction so the Robot starts searching the text/input from the left instead from the right?

I guess there is a command like this but I can't find any information this reagarding in the user guide/Google.

Thanks in advance for any input.


Piotr

Could you please share a specific example what you are trying to achieve?

Normally if you have an Expression and you would like to extract anything from a text/Input, Kapow starts to check the text/Input from the right side. eg if you have "This is - a test - to Show - what i mean" and you have the extraction pattern .* -(.*)- .* the result will be "to Show" and not "a test". 
There is a command you could enter before so the search will start at the left side of the text/Input so the result will be "a test".

P10TR wrote:Normally if you have an Expression and you would like to extract anything from a text/Input, Kapow starts to check the text/Input from the right side. eg if you have "This is - a test - to Show - what i mean" and you have the extraction pattern .* -(.*)- .* the result will be "to Show" and not "a test". 
There is a command you could enter before so the search will start at the left side of the text/Input so the result will be "a test".

 Hello,

You can use following pattern for your specified output.

.*?-(.*)- .*-.*

OR

.*?-(.*?)-.*


Thanks