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Asked: 2026-06-12T03:21:29+00:00

How do I make a regex in yahoo pipes to eliminate everything from the

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How do I make a regex in yahoo pipes to eliminate everything from the beginning of a field to a particular word?

I am taking the rss from youtube,

http://www.youtube.com/rss/search/%s.rss

and would like to extract the view count and add that as a separate field. The view count is in the description field and appears as:

<div><span style="color:#666666;font-size:11px;">Views:</span>
431</div>

in this case the number I need to extract is 431.

Thanks,
Pietro

P.S: What follows is part of the description of a recent search. I did not put the whole code because it was too long.

<div style="font-size:12px;margin:3px 0px;"><span>a frankly shoddy cover of Susan Cadogan&#39;s big hit! Reminds me of my first &#39;squeeze&#39; at The Hummingbird under 18&#39;s sesh, monkey boots, (couldn&#39;t afford Docs),fred perry t shirt and stapress &#39;champagne&#39; 2 tone trousers robbed from Nelson House....................</span></div></td>
<td style="font-size:11px;line-height:1.4em;padding-left:20px;padding-top:1px;" width="146" valign="top"><div><span style="color:#666666;font-size:11px;">From:</span>
<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ0m4ZjZMNdOl4uyvrQm-yw">TheLastMehari</a></div>
<div><span style="color:#666666;font-size:11px;">Views:</span>
431</div>
<div style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:left;"><img style="border:0px none;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:middle;font-size:11px;" align="top" alt="" src="http://gdata.youtube.com/static/images/icn_star_empty_11x11.gif"> <img style="border:0px none;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:middle;font-size:11px;" align="top" alt="" src="http://gdata.youtube.com/static/images/icn_star_empty_11x11.gif"> <img style="border:0px none;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:middle;font-size:11px;" align="top" alt="" src="http://gdata.youtube.com/static/images/icn_star_empty_11x11.gif"> <img style="border:0px none;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:middle;font-size:11px;" align="top" alt="" src="http://gdata.youtube.com/static/images/icn_star_empty_11x11.gif"> <img style="border:0px none;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:middle;font-size:11px;" align="top" alt="" src="http://gdata.youtube.com/static/images/icn_star_empty_11x11.gif"></div>
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  1. Editorial Team

    The replace part should like this:

    ^.*Views:\D*(\d+).*$

    … and replacement part will be just

    $1

    In other words, you’ll catch all the digits that are separated from Views: string with non-digit symbols only – and throw off all the rest.

    UPDATE: You should enable /s modifier for this to work. An alternative is using ‘universal’ character class instead of .:

    ^[\s\S]*Views:\D*(\d+)[\s\S]*$

    The replacement part should stay the same.

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