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Removing unwanted character output from MS Forms

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Posted on by jasonmurphy

Hi All,

I've found some solutions on this forum to replace unwanted characters from MS Forms, but am not getting far with removing the \n characters that get appended to multiple choice responses in MS Forms.

Here are some of the other posts that have helped me reach this point:

Here is a picture of my flow:

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The compose function is using this expression:

replace(body('Get_response_details')?['re161b12e16c941ba887a822bf85f74d3'],'\n','')

I have also tried using the expression directly within the SharePoint update list item connector. In all cases, the replace function is simply ignored and the output is:

"Option1\n"

"Option2\n"

Etc...

This is a real dealbreaker because the data is being inserted into a SharePoint List calculated column and results in a line break, which breaks the calculated column formula.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

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fchopo 8,003 Moderator on at

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Hi @jasonmurphy

Could you try this?:

uriComponentToString(replace(uriComponent(body('Get_response_details')?['re161b12e16c941ba887a822bf85f74d3']), '%0A', ''))

The UriComponent function returns an uncoded version for a string and replace unsafe characters with escape characters ('%0A' is line break one). The UriComponentToString encodes again the string.

Hope it helps!

Ferran

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jasonmurphy 34 on at

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Thank you @fchopo. It worked! Really appreciate it. 🙂

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Hi @fchopo ,
Please help me....
How can I use line break in Join action with the below statement
json(body('Get_response_details')?['r7cca81fce18242709b9857d74952ae93'])

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I want to display the multiple values in email:
Banner1
Banner2
Banner3
instead of
Banner1, Banner2, Banner3

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fchopo 8,003 Moderator on at

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Hi @Anonymous

Create a string variable with a line break and use it in the join action.

Hope it helps!

Ferran

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