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Got you @emanuel030, thanks for reporting. I will try to have support for this within this month. In the meantime, if you need it asap, you should be able to define your own regex for your headers using arguments regex and regex_alert in WhatsAppChat class.

We are currently discussing how to provide extensive support to all formats, since it seems there are endless header formats.

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another type would be (german version of the app) :
[DD.MM.YY, hh:mm:ss] username:

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@emanuel030 is this the message header or a copy and past? For example, this is an export from my phone:

6/28/16, 15:53 - ‪+55 00 0000-0000: [10/6 11:31] ‪+55 11 1111-1111‬: Vixe, consegui com nosso colega Luiz, uma cartilha do MEC q não autoriza diárias para estudante.
[10/6 11:32] ‪+55 22 2222-2222: Aqui viaja..  internacional também... nas só passagem, sem diárias. Recebem uma ajuda de custo pelo órgão
[10/6 11:51] ‪+55 33 3333-3333: ALUNO = AJUDA DE CUSTO, independente da origem do recurso
[10/6 11:56] ‪+55 44 4444-4444: Aluno vai pelo auxílio viagem

Where the user +55 00 0000-0000 copied and pasted messages from +55 11 1111-1111‬, +55 22 2222-2222, +55 33 3333-3333 and ‪+55 44 4444-4444. Tha's why considering [] brackets as part of the header is not a good choice in my case, because in the example above, its all part of the same message, which is a copy and past.

I hope I have made myself understood.

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This would be a copy from the chat itself:

[20.09.17, 16:54:32] Veronica MBS: Hey guys!
[20.09.17, 16:54:43] Veronica MBS: I just created 

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@emanuel030 Can you do a copy and past in that chat? For example, select these two messages and past it on that chat, and export it? =)

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@kafran The header does not change in my case if you copy a text, also does not change if you reply to one of the previous chats. It is still:

[17.04.18, 21:06:52] Jack: Sorry mlad but im home and hosed
[20.04.18, 16:17:52] emanuel: Sorry mlad but im home and hosed

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I would like to propose you guys to join this group about whatstk so we can generate the same chat and export from multiples devices and languages and timezones and understand how Whatsapp construct these files, as it seems to be a mystery: https://chat.whatsapp.com/LBR8ZMZWc57JZ1RKTNRKVa

What do you think? @lucasrodes @albertaparicio @emanuel030

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I think the expressions are already too general and are detecting fragments other than the header itself. The problem is with past and copy messages which also contains a "header". This is an example exported from my phone:

6/28/16, 15:49 - ‪+55 11 1111-1111: Karol, alguém postou algo sobre auxílio financeiro p alunos. Vou dar uma procurada.
6/28/16, 15:53 - ‪+55 11 1111-1111: [10/6 11:31] ‪+55 22 2222-2222: Vixe, consegui com nosso colega Luiz ,uma cartilha q não autoriza diárias para estudante.
[10/6 11:32] ‪+55 33 3333-3333: Aqui viaja..  internacional também... nas só passagem, sem diárias. Recebem uma ajuda de custo pelo órgão
[10/6 11:51] ‪+55 44 4444-4444: ALUNO = AJUDA DE CUSTO, independente da origem do recurso
[10/6 11:56] ‪+55 55 5555-5555: Aluno vai pelo auxílio viagem
6/28/16, 15:53 - ‪+55 11 1111-1111: Essa tal dessa cartilha. Vou procurar.

Here is the correct regex for it: https://goo.gl/U8B94g

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Issue closed because now the header format can be manually set (see WhatsAppChat arguments)

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