You can use patterns and regular expressions to find and use custom snippets of data from documents.
Regular expressions (regex for short) is a syntax for searching and retrieving text snippets in larger texts. It's very powerful for finding custom text patterns in your documents, but it's difficult to understand and use.
The syntax is to comprehensive to go into here. I recommend you use the documentation and interactive editor on regexr.com.
Another good resource is www.regular-expressions.info, where you can also find a list of examples.
You can use patterns can acheive some of the same complexity without attempting to grasp regex.
The pattern variable that finds gmail email addresses.
This rule will find all files that contains an email address from the @gmail.com domain, and move them to a folder.
This rule will find all files that contains an email address from the @gmail.com domain, and move them to a folder.
I've created a pattern with the format [text]@gmail.com.
You can build patterns of the following elements:
A regular expression variable that finds email addresses with b.
A rule that moves all files containing email adresses that starts with b.
For this example i've created a regex that finds email addresses that begins with "b". (The regex here is very simplified, and might not match all valid email addresses).
b\w+@\w+\.\w+