Later down the road, FileMaker added in support for the POST method of service interaction with the httpspost:// url scheme. When it comes to FileMaker, you’ve always been able to do super basic REST with the Insert from URL script step. Before it, came SOAP and XMLRPC, but the two buzzwords you’ll hear over and over these days are REST and JSON. REST (Representational state transfer) has quickly become the de facto standard for communication between services and apps. Learn it, use it and get the job done quicker when it’s the right tool for the job. Of course, the developer who preceded me obviously didn’t know RegEx and it’s why I’m providing this video for you. It was MUCH easier to simply use a RegEx pattern and directly extract the data desired and be done with it. Talk about extra network traffic just to process some data!
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Trust me, it was a crazy process where a full document of text was imported, line by line, into a FileMaker table, just so a loop could be used to walk across the data multiple times. Recently, I personally reduced a complex FileMaker file from three tables and close to twenty dedicated scripts, all for parsing some data, down to one table and two scripts. It’s been available since the 1950’s and it’s a worthwhile tool to know for sure.
That’s where, in the world of programming, Regular Expressions, or RegEx for short, is SUPER handy! It’s used in pretty much EVERY computing language and I don’t personally know a professional developer who can develop without it. The functions, however, are severely limited when it comes to matching variable patterns of data. With FileMaker’s PatternCount(), Left(), Right() and Middle() functions you can certainly extract a lot of data.
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