Extract Email Address

Extracts one or more email addresses from a text.

Command availability: IBM RPA SaaS and IBM RPA on premises

Description

Extracts one or more email addresses from a text.

The results that this command returns might vary according to the selected NLP provider. For more information, see Setting an NLP provider.

Script syntax

IBM RPA's proprietary script language has a syntax similar to other programming languages. The script syntax defines the command's syntax in the script file. You can work with this syntax in IBM RPA Studio's Script mode.

extractEmail --culture(Culture) --text(String) (List<String>)=values (String)=first (DataTable)=valuesmapping (Boolean)=success

Input parameter

The following table displays the list of input parameters available in this command. In the table, you can see the parameter name when working in IBM RPA Studio's Script mode and its Designer mode equivalent label.

Designer mode label Script mode name Required Accepted variable types Description
Language culture Required Text, Culture Language that defines the text culture.

If you define the language manually, make sure to enter only supported language codes. See the culture parameter options for supported languages.

Remember:The language does not affect how the command works. It is only used to set in which language an error will be returned.
Text text Required Text Text that contains the email address.

culture parameter options

The following table displays the options available for the culture input parameter. The table shows the options available when working in Script mode and the equivalent label in the Designer mode.

Designer mode label Script mode name Description Supported provider
ar ar Arabic Watson NLP
zh-CN zh-CN Chinese (Simplified) Watson NLP
zh-TW zh-TW Chinese (Traditional) Watson NLP
cs cs Czech Watson NLP
da da Danish Watson NLP
nl nl Dutch Watson NLP
de-DE de-DE German Watson NLP
en-US en-US English Legacy and Watson NLP
fi fi Finnish Watson NLP
fr-FR fr-FR French (France) Watson NLP
fr-CA fr-CA French (Canada) Watson NLP
he he Hebrew Watson NLP
it-IT it-IT Italian Watson NLP
ja-JP ja-JP Japanese Watson NLP
ko-KR ko-KR Korean Watson NLP
nb nb Norwegian Bokmal Watson NLP
nn nn Norwegian Nynorsk Watson NLP
pt-BR pt-BR Portuguese (Brazil) Legacy and Watson NLP
pt-PT pt-PT Portuguese (Portugal) Legacy and Watson NLP
pl pl Polish Watson NLP
ro ro Romanian Watson NLP
ru-RU ru-RU Russian Watson NLP
sk sk Slovak Watson NLP
es-ES es-ES Spanish Watson NLP
sv sv Swedish Watson NLP
tr tr Turkish Watson NLP

Output parameter

|Designer mode label|Script mode name|Accepted variable types|Description| |---|---|---|---|---| |Values| values|List<Text>|List of emails extracted.| |First value|first|Text|First email extracted.| |Values mapping|valuesmapping|Data Table|Data table with extracted values mapped by rows and columns.

See the valuesmapping parameter section for details.| |Success| success|Boolean|Returns True if the email was successfully extracted or False otherwise.|

valuesmapping parameter options

This parameter returns a data table with details of the extracted values.

The following list shows the mapped values:

  • The index of the email address in the list of extracted values. Index values start at 1.
  • The index in characters where the email address is found in the text.
  • The length of the text used to extract the email address.
  • The text used to extract the email address and the email address itself.

Example

The following example extract emails from alleged clients and store the results in variables.

defVar --name emails --type String --value "Customer 1, Email: randomcustomer1@random.com\r\nCustomer 2, Email: randomcustomer2@random.com\r\nCustomer 3, Email: randomcustomer3@random.com"
defVar --name emailsList --type List --innertype String
defVar --name firstValue --type String
defVar --name success --type Boolean
extractEmail --culture en-US --text "${emails}" emailsList=values firstValue=first success=success
logMessage --message "Email list: ${emailsList}\r\nFirst Email Found: ${firstValue}\r\nResult: ${success}\r\n" --type "Info"
// Email list: [randomcustomer1@random.com,randomcustomer2@random.com,randomcustomer3@random.com]
// First Email Found: randomcustomer1@random.com
// Result: True