The For Each Text Part step action can be configured using the following properties:

Input

The string to split can be specified in several ways using a Value Selector. If the contents of a tag should be split, you must first extract the tag text into a variable using the Extract step action.

Delimiter

Specify the delimiter at which to split the text.

See the example below where we split a text using "," as delimiter.

Output

Specifies the variable in which the text part will be stored in each iteration.

Skip Empty Output

If checked, the loop will skip iterations whose output would have been a text of length zero. For example if looping over the text "a,b,,c", the loop only contains three iterations (outputting "a", "b" and "c") if this property is checked. If the "Skip Empty Output" property is left unchecked, the loop contains four iterations (outputting "a", "b", "" and "c").

Example

We have the following input text:

apple,pear,banana,grape,kiwi,pineapple

We want to iterate over the fruits and perform some action for each; for example store the name of the fruit in a database.

As delimiter, we specify: ,

and as output variable we select Fruit.name.

In the first iteration, the Fruit.name variable will contain the value apple, in the second iteration it will contain the value pear. The entire loop will contain six iterations and in the final iteration the Fruit.name variable will contain the value pineapple.