david(aboy@gmail.com)
jack(bboy@gmail.com)
lily(cboy@gmail.com)
The result is three lines.
Maybe not three lines, maybe four lines.
I want save aboy@gmail.com in variable1.
save bboy@gmail.com in variable2.
save cboy@gmail.com in variable3.
Is there any methods ?
RegEx is probably the best way to separate a string.
just search for:
(^.*)(\n.*)(\n.*)(\n.*)
(repeat (\n.*) for as many groups you like to save) and set the variable names
Quick example draft attached
Separate String Using RegEx.kmmacros (16.0 KB)
Oh, probably something like this as you only want the email not the whole line:
\((.*)\)\n.*\((.*)\)\n.*\((.*)\)
why do you want to assign each line to a KM variable?
How will you use these variables?
I generally find it easier to just use a For Each action with a lines collection that is either in ONE variable, or from a file.
It looks like to me that each line is just an email address.
What do you want to do with each address?
You should also pay attention to the warning:
If you are going to use Open a File Folder or Application action to open an application, make sure you select the Finder as the application to open it, otherwise you may end up opening Google Chrome as a document in some other application (eg an archiving application).
Alternatively, use the Activate a Specific Application action.
Oh this is cool, did not know that setting in the for each action. That's a much better approach than mine.
I thought it is odd that there is no global setting in the regex action, but I guess this should be done with a For Each as well, like described in the wiki https://wiki.keyboardmaestro.com/collection/Substrings_In
