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How to get string before a character appearing multiple times in power automate

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I have this string and I need to get the first character before my date value start. so for example if I have name as ZXDER_20201209220430Z I need ZXDER, if I have ZXDDFR_IUT_23_20201209220430Z I need ZXDDFR_IUT_23. How do I do this once in Power automate. My value after last underscore will always be date value.

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Gopala_Krishna 1,495 on at

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You can achieve this using below expression in power automate

substring(outputs('Compose'),0,lastIndexOf(outputs('Compose'),'_'))

Replace the outputs('Compose') to the action from where you are fetching the data.

For my example I have taken the sentence how_are_you and stored it in compose action.

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@Gopala_Krishna great!!! and what if we need the date part, i.e. the value after last "_"

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You can use below expression for that

substring(outputs('Compose'),lastIndexOf(outputs('Compose'),'_'),length(outputs('Compose')))

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