Capturing text with a Script (Windows app only)

Capturing text with a Script

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Most text capturing tasks can be done with other methods such as “Regular expressions match” or “Start with… continues until…” but for very specific cases you may need to write a script that captures the required information from the received email or even other sources.

A very simple script that returns the first word of the email body is the following:

using System;
using System.Text;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using EmailParserBackendApi.ScriptingInterface;
 
public class MyScriptBasedEmailParser : ScriptBasedParser
{
	//
	// Modify this method to implement your own text capture
	//
	public override List<string> ExtractTextFrom(string input_text)
	{
        List<string> returned_values = new List<string>();
 
        // Get the first word of the incoming email
        char[] valid_word_separators = new char[] { ' ', ',', '.', ':' };
        string[] words = input_text.Split(valid_word_separators,StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries);
        returned_values.Add(words[0]);
 
        return(returned_values);
	}
}

As you can see, you need to implement the method ExtractTextFrom() that takes any field (body, subject, CC, etc) as input and outputs a list of captured text strings.

It is highly recommended to write the script in Visual Studio, using the Email Parser scripting SDK. The text editor embedded in Email Parser is very basic and lacks many useful features such as debugging, Intellisense, etc.