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← GalleryExtract Fields from Messages.app Selected Chat✨ Emoji Combos

/^(.+?)\. Last message: (.+\.?) (\w[^AMP].+?)\.$/gmiPCRE+09 years ago✓ Pre-loaded

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This regular expression parses and extracts fields from Apple's Messages.app text summaries. It captures the chat name or participant, the text of the last message, and a timestamp that skips certain AM/PM characters. It expects the input string to follow a 'Name. Last message: Text. Timestamp.' format.

messages applescript extraction chat timestamp

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