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jmousavi
New Contributor
5 years ago

How to write GET request content to a file with new lines instead of \n characters

I am trying to get an expression library from the Github API and save the content into a file in Snaplogic. When I get the content from the GET snap, it has \n characters and doesn’t recognize them a...
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tlikarish
Employee
5 years ago

The second argument to parse is the format that the string is expected to be in and that’s why you get the 0006-04-18 result.

Here’s an example pipeline to try out. It includes a mapper with the expression @bojanvelevski mentioned and also another method using the Date Time Extractor snap from the ML Data Preparation snap pack.

date-example_2021_04_09.slp (7.0 KB)

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    cstewart
    Former Employee
    5 years ago

    Try checking the “Pretty Print” checkbox in the JSON Formatter. This should put the \n characters in.