🧩Extract Text Fragment

🧩 Extracting Text Fragment

The Extract Text Fragment tool lets you precisely trim parts of text based on position and length. This is ideal for cleaning up formatted data, isolating identifiers, or trimming fixed-position strings.

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🎯 Use Case Examples

• 🔍 Extracting the last 4 digits of a credit card number

• 🛍️ Isolating SKU codes from inventory lists

• 🚚 Cropping tracking numbers or courier references

• 🧾 Pulling coupon codes, order numbers, or line IDs

• 🔢 Shortening hashes, wallet addresses, or UUIDs

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⚙️ Main Controls

Here's a breakdown of the available input fields and their behavior:

🟣 Input Text

This is your source data. Paste in plain text, multi-line input, or structured text blocks.

🟣 Starting Position

Defines the character position where extraction begins.

• Positive values start from the left (index 0 = first character)

• Negative values count backward from the end of each string

Example: -4 grabs the last 4 characters

🟣 Fragment Length

Defines how many characters to extract.

• Leave blank to extract everything from the start position to the end

• Use - to extract from the beginning to the start position (exclusive)

Example: 2 start & 3 length = characters 2, 3, and 4 - length with start 5 will get characters before position 5

🟣 Line-by-Line Mode (Toggle)

When enabled, each line of your input is treated as a separate string to process individually.

• Helpful when working with bulk lists like:

  12345678  
  98765432  
  66778899

  You’ll get one fragment per line.

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📤 Output Section

The Text Fragment panel on the right displays the result of your extraction. You can copy or download the output using the clipboard and download buttons.

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💡 Pro Tips

🪛 Empty Fragment Length = “grab everything from starting point to end” 🔁 Use Line-by-Line with CSVs, lists, or dumped data 📍 Preview results carefully when using negative positions — they reverse direction ✂️ You can use this to strip prefixes, clip IDs, or extract embedded codes

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🧪 Sample Scenarios

Input	Start	Length	Line-by-line	Output
abc123XYZ	3	3	Off	123
abc123XYZ	-3		Off	XYZ
12345678\n87654321	1	4	On	2345, 7654
Order-008829\nOrder-001239	-6	6	On	008829, 001239