Advanced text formatting features
As you have learned so far, the Formatter by Zapier built-in app allows you to manipulate text in many versatile ways without having any knowledge of coding or any technical background whatsoever. There are, however, a few transform functions that allow you to manipulate text using programming languages. As these are advanced topics, we will only provide a brief overview of their functionality, without going into too much detail.
The following transform options can be used to manipulate text with programming languages:
- Extract Pattern: You can use this transform option when you need to extract partial data from a field with more specificity than the other Extract transform options we have covered. This allows you to use Python regular expressions (regexes). You can find out more about Python regexes here: https://developers.google.com/edu/python/regular-expressions.
- Convert HTML to Markdown: You can use this transform option when you...