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Posted on 9 Mar 2021 11:03:19 by tinyellie

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Hi.

Basically I am trying to get entries from multiple SharePoint lists and join them all together in an XML file.

Get items from list 1.

Apply to Each list 1 - this gets the Title from each list item.

Compose 1 - put Title inside the XML elements.

Get items from list 2

Apply to Each list 2

Compose 2

I then have a final Compose that puts Outputs 1 and 2 inside the XML headers.

I end up with all the XML I want but it also includes square brackets.

<?xml version="1">

<element>

[" <element2>title1</element2>"]

["<element2>title2</element2>"]

</element>

Is there any way to prevent or remove these square brackets?

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tinyellie 7 on 09 Mar 2021 at 14:38:25

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Re: Removing brackets from a Compose Output

I had to initialize a variable to turn the array output into a string and then it worked. Thank You!
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Paulie78 8,407 Super User 2025 Season 1 on 09 Mar 2021 at 11:53:15

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Re: Removing brackets from a Compose Output

In a compose action:

replace(replace(outputs('withBrackets'), '["', ''), '"]', '')

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