Filtering name from a thing string

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Release = Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)

Kernel = Linux 5.10.17-v7+

Platform = Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Rev 1.1

OH Version = 3.02

I’m using iCal and I have events where the current event name string can be “UNDEF, Blocked, or Reserve - GuestName”. I would like to parse the guest name into an item. I was investigating profiles but I don’t believe it is possible. I was hoping to avoid running a script to filter the latter part of the string based on the “-” delimiter. Any ideas?

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Have you tried Regex:
I’m not that of an expert, but with the expression

(?<=[-])(.*)

You will automatically get the guestname (try it e.g. with regex101.com)
Unfortunately with the leading whitespace, but there’s for sure an regex expression that also will eliminate this.

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Why not? You can do just about anything in a javascript transform profile.

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Thanks for the prompt feedback. I installed the Regex transformation and added the expression to the item properties. Will test it tomorrow when the calendar entry gets updated.

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Thanks for suggesting the javascript transform profile. I created a filename.js in transform folder and used the javascript split() function to split the input based on " - " and return the second element of the array. I’ll be able to test both javescript and the regex suggestions tomorrow when the calendar event gets updated.