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Posted on by mrpowergage

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I have a jotform returning data which I has a line break at the end, and possibly some other data I can't see.

"Test

"

I am using a switch control, which looks for x equals y

So when I run the flow I don't get True for equals "Test"

(nor do I get True for equals "Test

")

However I do get True for contains "Test"

What can I do to the initial variable to just get the clean text so I can do the equals comparison I need in the switch control?

I have tried using trim() with no success.

Many thanks for any help

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efialttes 14,756 on at

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Hi!

So let's assume you have your text stored on a variable called 'myInputString', type string, value

Test

Please note there are two-three line breaks in the value

In order to remove the line break, my suggestion is to use this old trick, which is the following expression:

replace(variables('myInputString',' ','')

Please remember to hit 'enter' to declare the expression

Hope this helps

Take care and stay healthy!

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roabus 2 on at

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Hi,

I have a similar problem. I'm using "html to text" to convert the body of an email to a string. The problem is that "html to text" inserts a line break in the middle of the text that shows up in the resulting excel table.

I've tried using the following formula and using your trick with replace(), but when I hit enter nothing happends, it just leaves an empty string. Resulting in the error pictured below. I've also tried \n, but that results in an formula-error where I'm not allowed to save my changes to the formula.

replace(first(skip(split(first(split(body('Html_to_text'),'Produksjonsperiode: ')),'Tittel: '),1)),'',' ')

I've tested all the separate parts, and when the program outputs only skip() without the last first() the resulting array saved in Excel show that there is indeed a \n in the text.

I guess I'm misunderstanding something here. Can you help me with this issue?

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