I want to extract a specific piece of text from another multi line text field.
Say the multi-line text field is called [Data] and it contains the following lines of text: Name: QuickBase Move Date: 9/15/2016 Phone: 000-000-0000 The info before the colons will always be t...
Okay I made a demo out of your data. It does not focus absolutely on your specific parsing issue (I think you only wanted to parse some scrap of information) but it should be obvious that with script you can parse anything. Also, this answer is more in line with some of my other posts where I promote the idea of creating custom fields (like the Chessboard field: https://community.quickbase.com/quickbase/topics/ima-grandmaster-does-quickbase-support-chessboard-f...)
In the following application there are only two fields in the table: [Body] (a multi-line text field) and [Editor] (an image onload field).
When you edit a record, the image onload field [Editor] will magically expand into a series of <input>s on the form where you can edit any of the attributes listed in the [Body] field.
If you add a record and enter text using the same multiline colon separated attribute / value format you can later edit the record and the [Editor] field will once again expand into a series of <input>s.
I have to go now as I have a bunch of people asking for Tic Tac Toe fields, Checkers fields, Mahjong fields, Backgammon fields, Conway's Game of Life fields. If you need personal assistance parsing your data using script or have some other game board fields you want implemented feel free to contact me off-world using the information in my profile:
