Splitting up data with regex search and replace

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@hayleyh

Curious to know if this is possible somehow

I understand your point in which case you should check out a couple of third party plug in actions.

There’s Split:

Split Text - Plugin Action

Split Text by Ian Kirkland Description This plugin action takes input text and splits it into multiple strings based on a user-defined delimiter or 'split point' and is useful for getting different parts of a URL, IP address, filename, extension, email address, phone number, you name it. The split point can be a character, a string, or even a Keyboard Maestro token; anything you want to use to chop text into individual parts. Each of these parts are then saved to their own dynamically-gener…

And then there’s Split:

SPLIT :: Custom plugin – Split a String to a KM Array

Second draft – updated to enable splitting of multi-line strings. SPLIT a string to a KM array.zip (8.7 KB) NAME Split a String to a KM Array VERSION 0.02 2021–02–07 Updated to handle multiline input strings. SYNOPSIS The string specified in the String to split field is split wherever the given Delimiter sub-string appears, to form a Keyboard Maestro Array variable. NOTES The Delimiter pattern can be a plain literal string, or a regular expression regexpattern, as selected in the Delim…