I’m going around in never ending circles with Regex and I’m not sure it is even the way I should be approaching my problem. I have a string of 17 alphanumeric characters (e.g. AD6HU987RKE06G54T) and I need to display them, in a Text element, in chunks as is done with credit card numbers. They need …

Take a look at the text operators in the reference (or just in the drop downs) — just chain your representation together in an expression. Example, your first 4 chars are ID:truncated to 3-… etc

Thank you @romanmg I use that plugin myself. In fact I use it when inputting that very field but never thought to use it when displaying - 4 hours down the drain :frowning:

Will do @keith - more learning - I love it.

All the JS style operators are there (though this isn’t quite as slick as if you can express it as a regex). Also, don’t feel bad: I spent more time that I shoulda recently trimming white space from an input via regex… but there’s already a built-in operator for that. Doh!

It’s the human tendency to overcomplicate everything.

Maybe! With respect to the white space thing, I just wasn’t EXPECTING it would exist so didn’t go looking for it. This is kind of a problem with Bubble operators — not easy to search for info on them in context. (The operator in question, BTW is :trimmed … which I never figured was “trim white spac…

@Keith I thought exactly the same about trimmed and did a double take when I saw recently that it was a space remover. We’ve had a power outage here for hours but it just came back and I was straight in to try out the text operators. I’m already using the plugin Gaby mentioned so that was easy but …

The Reference doesn’t really make for a good read, but a useful thing to do is spend some time clicking on the contextual help links that pop up when you hover over elements in the interface. I find when I read the entire section, I usually learn something. There’s totally a lot of goodies hidden i…

Extract parts of string with Regex

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romanmg August 9, 2018, 3:16pm 2

Try this plugin - it lets you define your own pattern and has worked well for me in various scenarios: New Plugin - Input Formatter

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Extract parts of string with Regex

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