Converting a list to tags on single line

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I’m just getting started, with both AfO and Shortcuts. The first thing I’m building is a workflow to save links I want to share on my blog and elsewhere. When saving a link, I also want to decide on how to tag it. For this I currently use a muliti-select list, where I store the input to a variable:

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But if I just put the Tags variable into the note I create, I get each selected tag on a separate line. What is the best way to iterate over the Chosen Item, adding a hashtag sign before each and removing the line-break at the end?

/Anders

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This would work:

  1. Set up a built-in Text action and have it hold the [Chosen Item].
  2. Add a Replace Text action, with the search term ^|\n (meaning “start of text block or new line”) and the replacement # (space + hash sign), and make it a regular expression.

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Excellent, thanks! So the ^ is matching the first item, and \n the following?

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The Replace Text action takes the entire text as input and treats it as whole, not line by line. But regular expressions will replace matches, and the ^ matches not a character but a position: The very beginning of the input, i.e. the place before the first character. The \n are characters, namely the line breaks.

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