# New Parse Text action available
**URL:** https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/new-parse-text-action-available/764
**Category:** Discussion
**Created:** [February 29, 2008, 6:31am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/new-parse-text-action-available/764 "2008-02-29T06:31:55Z")
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### Author:  [@stevage](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/stevage)
#### Post date: [February 29, 2008, 6:31am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/new-parse-text-action-available/764/1 "2008-02-29T06:31:55Z")
I've created and uploaded a "Parse Text" action. It's basically a useful wrapper around regular expressions, making it easy to extract information from text. It was previously possible to do this with the Text Find / Replace action, but pretty convoluted. This action lets you save up to 9 subexpressions simultaneously, or build up a big expression like "$1-$2 ($3)" and save that to another variable.
It's in the community downloads area. Let me know what you think.
Steve
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### Author:  [@angus](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/angus)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2008, 11:40am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/new-parse-text-action-available/764/2 "2008-03-02T11:40:47Z")
Hi Steve,
That’s terrific, thanks for contributing it.
Unfortunately the Community Downloads module is experiencing problems again, and downloads are corrupt. Is there any chance you could re-submit this as an attachment to this post, temporarily? Thanks.
We hope to have the Downloads issue resolved soon.
Regards,
Angus
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### Author:  [@angus](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/angus)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2008, 12:50pm UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/new-parse-text-action-available/764/3 "2008-03-03T12:50:53Z")
Community downloads is now fixed, so the original download should work.
[https://www.finalbuilder.com/Default.aspx?tabid=154&id=44&language=en-US](https://www.finalbuilder.com/Default.aspx?tabid=154&id=44&language=en-US)