Overview of the different parsing methods

Email Parser offers different methods to capture the needed piece of text from the email. Depending on your skills or the complexity of the email you will use one or another. You can even combine them for the most complex cases.

	Difficulty	Can be used in all cases?
Starts with… continues until…	Low. No special skills required.	Yes. It can be used in most parsing cases.
Ask AI	Low. No special skills required.	Yes. You can describe what you want to capture in plain language and the AI will figure it out.
Text filtering and replacing	Low. No special skills required.	Only for formatting already parsed text. For instance, removing spaces from a phone number.
Regular expression match	Medium. Some RegExp skills are required.	Yes. Everything can be parsed with regular expressions, making them a very powerful technique. However, they often require a deep understanding to write correctly, and complex expressions can be difficult to read and maintain over time.
Capture HTML tag	Medium. Some HTML knowledge is required.	Only for parsing the HTML version of the email (the field named BodyHTML), not the plain text one.
JavaScript	High. JavaScript coding skills are required.	Yes. With a script everything can be parsed if you know how to code the proper algorithm.
C# script	High. C# coding skills are required.	Yes. With a script everything can be parsed if you know how to code the proper algorithm. Note: only available in the Windows app.