---
title: "Text Manipulation Connector"
slug: "text-manipulation-connector"
description: "Use the Text Manipulation connector in Lansweeper Flow Builder to join, match, replace, and transform text strings in your workflows."
updated: 2026-07-17T15:48:02Z
published: 2026-06-12T15:16:52Z
canonical: "docs.lansweeper.com/text-manipulation-connector"
---

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# Text Manipulation Connector

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The **text manipulation** component allows you to perform common operations on some text. For example, you can join two or more text strings together with the **join** action, find text with the **match** action, replace strings with other strings within a piece of text with the **replace** function, and more.

## Actions

### Decode Base64

Convert the input string from base64 encoding

| Input | Comments | Default |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Base64 Text |  |  |

### Encode Base64

Convert the input string or file to base64 encoding

| Input | Comments | Default |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Text or file |  |  |

### Extract Substring

Extract a substring from a string

| Input | Comments | Default |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Text | This is the text to manipulate |  |
| Slice start | The index on which to start the slice of the text. |  |
| Slice stop | The index on which to stop the slice of the text. |  |

### Find & Replace

Find and replace all instances of one substring with another

| Input | Comments | Default |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Text | This is the text to manipulate |  |
| Substring to find and be replaced | This is the substring that is to be replaced. |  |
| The substring to replace instances of 'find' with | The substring to replace instances of 'find' with. Can be a string or regular expression. |  |

### Find & Replace Multiple Substrings

Find and replace all instances of multiple substrings with another

| Input | Comments | Default |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Text | This is the text to manipulate |  |
| Replace With | Replace |  |

### HTML Decode

Decode HTML-encoded input string

| Input | Comments | Default |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Text | This is the text to manipulate |  |

### HTML Encode

Convert input string to HTML-encoded equivalent

| Input | Comments | Default |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Text | This is the text to manipulate |  |

### Join

Join strings together using an optional separator to form a single string.

| Input | Comments | Default |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Strings | A set of strings to join together into a single string. |  |
| Separator | The separator to use to split or concatenate text. |  |

### Join Lines

Join strings together with a newline character

| Input | Comments | Default |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Strings | A set of strings to join together into a single string. |  |
| Newline type | The type of newline to use. |  |
| Number of newlines | The number of newlines to insert. | 1 |

### Lower Case

Convert the input string to lower case

| Input | Comments | Default |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Text | This is the text to manipulate |  |

### Match Regex

Match a string against a regular expression

| Input | Comments | Default |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Text | This is the text to manipulate |  |
| Regex | A regular expression to match against the text that is supplied. |  |
| Regex Flags | Flags to apply to the regular expression. For example, you can specify 'd' to ensure capture groups are returned. See [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Regular_expressions#advanced_searching_with_flags](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Regular_expressions#advanced_searching_with_flags) | g |

### Remove Whitespace

Remove leading and trailing whitespace from a string

| Input | Comments | Default |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Text | This is the text to manipulate |  |

### Split Lines

Split a block of text on newline characters (\n)

| Input | Comments | Default |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Text | This is the text to manipulate |  |
| Filter Blank Lines | Filter blank lines (like trailing newlines) | true |

### Split String

Split a string into a list of strings on a separator character

| Input | Comments | Default |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Text | This is the text to manipulate |  |
| Separator | The separator to use to split or concatenate text. |  |

### String Length

Get the length of a string

| Input | Comments | Default |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Text | This is the text to manipulate |  |

### Upper Case

Convert the input string to UPPER CASE

| Input | Comments | Default |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Text | This is the text to manipulate |  |