Parse Text Output to Variable

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Can someone help me with following response:

“Session Token-> BAMAuthToken: 4HyQcMTU3MjAwMzA5NTkyMzpnZXIwMDAxcF9hcGk ← for User : ger0001p_api”

I need the token stored in a variable TOKEN. (4HyQcMTU3MjAwMzA5NTkyMzpnZXIwMDAxcF9hcGk)

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Thanks and best regards,
Philipp

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Hey @ger0001p,

You could give this a go - It’s only going to cover a very basic way of getting and setting that value from the response:

Getting the response body as text using pm.response.text(), splitting the data using the .split() function and then creating an array of those items.

console.log(pm.response.text().split(" "))

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The item is 4th in the zero-indexed list so you can reference that using [3] to save that value as an environment variable.

pm.environment.set("TOKEN", pm.response.text().split(" ")[3])

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Thank you @danny-dainton. Works perfect! :slight_smile:

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You should really encourage the entity responsible for the API to provide you with a parsable response, like JSON. This is really a nasty hack which can easily break in the future.

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Agreed, This solution will not stand the test of time.

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Hi @danny-dainton,

Your given solution is working for me but here I have some more text in the next line before the space which one I don’t want to take in my variable value.

So could you please let me know how can I add 2 split in single function or split text.

Response Body:
Job Id : 70c33082-326f-4276-88ca-04dcc046ef55
Total Number of Records: 2
Total Number of Successful Records: 0
Total Number of Failure Records: 2
Total Number of Blank Records: 0

My Script:
var SearchHelp = pm.response.text().split(" ")[3];

Getting ‘SearchHelp’ Value:
70c33082-326f-4276-88ca-04dcc046ef55
Total

and I need only 70c33082-326f-4276-88ca-04dcc046ef55 value in my SearchHelp variable.

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Hey @arpit.agrawal,

It seems like you have a different response to the original question and the different pieces of data are on new lines, something like this might help you:

let splitResponse = pm.response.text().split("\n")

pm.environment.set("SearchHelp", splitResponse[0].split(" ")[3])

It looks hacky and it felt hacky even writing this though :frowning_face:

As @vdespa mentioned:

You should really encourage the entity responsible for the API to provide you with a parsable response, like JSON. This is really a nasty hack which can easily break in the future.

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Have a response

{ Token: ["33908e17-ba40-453e-a630-3de91d6cad72"]}

pm.environment.set("Token", pm.response.text().split(" ")[2])

its is giving me token value as [“33908e17-ba40-453e-a630-3de91d6cad72”]}

Need of only value as 33908e17-ba40-453e-a630-3de91d6cad72. How to get it and print it in console

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If that’s a JSON response, you would just need to do this:

console.log(pm.response.json().Token[0])

The original question was talking about a response that was text across multiple lines so that solution wouldn’t really work for your response. As it’s JSON, you can just retrieve this in the normal way. :smiley:

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Hey Danny good to see you back!! sorry should’ve update its Text response
{ Token: ["33908e17-ba40-453e-a630-3de91d6cad72"]}

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That’s quite an important piece of information to miss out, given the way the response looks.

console.log(pm.response.text().split('"')[1])

Again this is a very hacky way of doing it but it should get down to what you need.

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:slight_smile: thanks my bad again missing out. that works and now pushing that to csv too

let Lguid = pm.response.text().split('"')[1];
console.log(`,${Lguid}\n`); ```
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