# How to get something from text

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**Category:** Questions about Thunkable X\
**Created:** [September 21, 2021, 5:01pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-get-something-from-text/1518495 "2021-09-21T17:01:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![namitnagar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a183cd/32.png) [@namitnagar](https://community.thunkable.com/u/namitnagar)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2021, 5:01pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-get-something-from-text/1518495/1 "2021-09-21T17:01:15Z")

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Hi  
I am creating an app which uploads image to cloudinary and uploading to cloudinary return media url in that at the end every image has some letters which are different so onece the user uploads the image it should return the last characters how can I do it.

This is what we get 👇

[![](https://res.cloudinary.com/dnvgxliv4/image/upload/v1632119076/txtr9us7nuwgoujlhtdx.png) ](https://res.cloudinary.com/dnvgxliv4/image/upload/v1632119076/txtr9us7nuwgoujlhtdx.png)

This is what I want 👇  
txtr9us7nuwgoujlhtdx.png

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**Author:** ![namitnagar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a183cd/32.png) [@namitnagar](https://community.thunkable.com/u/namitnagar)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2021, 5:09pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-get-something-from-text/1518495/2 "2021-09-21T17:09:30Z")

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The image is a link file uploaded on cloudinary

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**Author:** ![muneer](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/muneer/32/75210_2.png) [@muneer](https://community.thunkable.com/u/muneer)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2021, 5:30pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-get-something-from-text/1518495/3 "2021-09-21T17:30:44Z")

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If you are using `Media DB` you will get the URL of the uploaded image. The image name is the last part of the URL. and then use the `substring` block to get that part.

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**Author:** ![tatiang](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/tatiang/32/55482_2.png) [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2021, 5:32pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-get-something-from-text/1518495/4 "2021-09-21T17:32:04Z")

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![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/f/d/fd99f0f92680cdb8f3685ae07fcd2c2db7a98206.png)

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**Author:** ![ioannis](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/ioannis/32/146956_2.png) [@ioannis](https://community.thunkable.com/u/ioannis)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2024, 1:15pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/how-to-get-something-from-text/1518495/5 "2024-11-08T13:15:10Z")

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