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Emit first non-empty value

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Consider this diagram, where lots of conditions are evaluated:

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Then consider if after all of that you need to map a value that may come from more than one of those conditional branches, where depending on which branch is executed there is a priority order where you want to grab the first non-empty value.

There is a easy way to do that with the "emit first non-empty value" action in the Transform Text app:

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Map in a list of values from the preceding actions. The first non-empty value in the list will be emitted when the action runs:

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You can also define a default value to emit if all mapped values are empty.