# From text with comas, to list in bubble workflow **URL:** \ **Category:** Database\ **Created:** [July 30, 2023, 5:58pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/from-text-with-comas-to-list-in-bubble-workflow/275053 "2023-07-30T17:58:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![klovistore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/35a633/32.png) [@klovistore](https://forum.bubble.io/u/klovistore)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2023, 5:58pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/from-text-with-comas-to-list-in-bubble-workflow/275053/1 "2023-07-30T17:58:43Z")
Hello, I need help regarding the types, I have a list in a text (this is the output of an API), it is like “word1, word2, word3, word4…wordN” I would like to add each word to a list in bubble. Like Word\_list: word1 (first item), word2, word3 … wordN Is there an easy way to do it ? I saw a post where they said to use extract with regex “[^,]+” but for me it does not work, I can’t access the word1 as the first element of a list, but it puts all the words in the first element ---
**Author:** ![adamhholmes](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/adamhholmes/32/100510_2.png) [@adamhholmes](https://forum.bubble.io/u/adamhholmes)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2023, 6:01pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/from-text-with-comas-to-list-in-bubble-workflow/275053/2 "2023-07-30T18:01:57Z")
`split by: , ` (comma space) ---
**Author:** ![klovistore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/35a633/32.png) [@klovistore](https://forum.bubble.io/u/klovistore)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2023, 11:52pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/from-text-with-comas-to-list-in-bubble-workflow/275053/3 "2023-07-30T23:52:15Z")
hello, yes I tried, it does not work either ! ---
**Author:** ![adamhholmes](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/adamhholmes/32/100510_2.png) [@adamhholmes](https://forum.bubble.io/u/adamhholmes)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2023, 11:58pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/from-text-with-comas-to-list-in-bubble-workflow/275053/4 "2023-07-30T23:58:14Z")
I can _assure_ you, 100%, it works. (if it doesn’t work for _you_, you must be doing it wrong). ---
**Author:** ![klovistore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/35a633/32.png) [@klovistore](https://forum.bubble.io/u/klovistore)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2023, 2:46am UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/from-text-with-comas-to-list-in-bubble-workflow/275053/5 "2023-07-31T02:46:47Z")
yes that is why I ask here if there is no other solution, the split by: , is the first stuff I tried, but to no avail… I don’t know what I can do wrong, I use a personal api you can try, contact me in dm ---
**Author:** ![klovistore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/35a633/32.png) [@klovistore](https://forum.bubble.io/u/klovistore)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2023, 2:55am UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/from-text-with-comas-to-list-in-bubble-workflow/275053/6 "2023-07-31T02:55:27Z")
![Capture d’écran du 2023-07-31 04-54-41](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/original/3X/7/5/75d06d23dc73b69261c1b141bd85733e6c60abdb.png) ![Capture d’écran du 2023-07-31 04-53-40](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/original/3X/2/0/20f814c296d9cbb794899554934e9443d59ec6a5.png) ![Capture d’écran du 2023-07-31 04-53-11](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/original/3X/3/8/38dbb286bb61d9d94d236fe4dc9a8d57d381c25d.png) it should be ‘fourtoutici’ in title not the full list of gardbage ---
**Author:** ![animisha45](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/animisha45/32/224436_2.png) [@animisha45](https://forum.bubble.io/u/animisha45)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2023, 4:54am UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/from-text-with-comas-to-list-in-bubble-workflow/275053/7 "2023-07-31T04:54:47Z")
For the Title, I would write something like this: expression: split by(, ): frst item. This would ensure only first item gets added after the split. ---
**Author:** ![adamhholmes](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/adamhholmes/32/100510_2.png) [@adamhholmes](https://forum.bubble.io/u/adamhholmes)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2023, 7:04am UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/from-text-with-comas-to-list-in-bubble-workflow/275053/8 "2023-07-31T07:04:46Z")
You’re telling it to add the whole list as a single text… which is exactly what it’s doing (i.e. you’re doing it wrong) If you only want the first item added, then you need to use split by , : first item. ---
**Author:** ![klovistore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/35a633/32.png) [@klovistore](https://forum.bubble.io/u/klovistore)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2023, 3:03pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/from-text-with-comas-to-list-in-bubble-workflow/275053/9 "2023-07-31T15:03:38Z")
this is exctly what i’m doing guys, title = xml\_title\_temp: split by (,) : first item xml\_title\_temp = “fourtoutici, fourtoutici upload, click…” I should have : title = “fourtoutici” ---
**Author:** ![georgecollier](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/user_avatar/forum.bubble.io/georgecollier/32/182327_2.png) [@georgecollier](https://forum.bubble.io/u/georgecollier)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2023, 3:05pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/from-text-with-comas-to-list-in-bubble-workflow/275053/10 "2023-07-31T15:05:44Z")
Send a screenshot because that would work if what you’re telling us is correct. ---
**Author:** ![klovistore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/35a633/32.png) [@klovistore](https://forum.bubble.io/u/klovistore)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2023, 3:41pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/from-text-with-comas-to-list-in-bubble-workflow/275053/11 "2023-07-31T15:41:55Z")
![Capture d’écran du 2023-07-31 17-37-13](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/original/3X/1/4/14577074c44decfb881c9abef061b3ddcb8213b2.png) In fact the pb I have, and where you can help me the most to understand is that: the “titles” field of the API is a liste of words 'word1, word2, word3…" that I want to turn into a list in Bubble, but as you can see I dont have ‘spilt by (,)’ choice here, before I stored it in a variable ‘xml\_title\_temp’, but when i try to ‘split by (,)’ directly I can’t, I can only do ‘each item : split by…’ which is different. ---
**Author:** ![klovistore](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/35a633/32.png) [@klovistore](https://forum.bubble.io/u/klovistore)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2023, 3:46pm UTC](https://forum.bubble.io/t/from-text-with-comas-to-list-in-bubble-workflow/275053/12 "2023-07-31T15:46:11Z")
Well it does not split by ![Capture d’écran du 2023-07-31 18-23-59](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/original/3X/6/9/69b32df998000628bd9ae1b7e0ba805ab6f06efb.png) ![Capture d’écran du 2023-07-31 18-24-13](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/original/3X/8/5/850b687fc32876b9f44b2e13d1417604b3ff2efb.png) ![Capture d’écran du 2023-07-31 18-24-26](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/bubble/original/3X/e/a/eacfba30b54e040f48132a2dc901cd580aa699b2.png)