Stripping Out Unwanted Elements in a Variable

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Well, I think you may find that a lot of people here recommend the Regular Expression route, though that requires learning the basics of Regular Expressions.

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and my personal feeling is that if you are going to learn a language like that, you might get more flexibility and less fiddle from learning a fuller language like JavaScript or Python

JS route.kmmacros (2.1 KB)

and if, very sensibly, you would prefer to avoid learning any language beyond the Keyboard Maestro actions themselves, then I would recommend:

  1. Studying @peternlewis 's response lower down in this thread: How Do I Get the Position of a Character in a String using KM Actions? - Questions & Suggestions - Keyboard Maestro Discourse to find out how to get the position of the next hyphen, and
  2. action:Substring of Variable or Clipboard [Keyboard Maestro Wiki] to find out how to use position indexes to extract sub-strings.
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