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Dear team,

I am assigning a variable, the value is URL and it contain % in the middle of the text. but when assign it's showing a syntax error. kindly help how can we assign a value which contain % in the middle of the text.

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David_MA 15,587 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

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If you need to use `%` as a literal character in a URL, it must be encoded as `%25`. Using `%` alone without encoding can cause issues, as it might be interpreted as the start of a percent-encoded character sequence. For further reference: URL Encoding and what characters are valid in a URI

If that doesn't resolve your issue, please show how the action is configured, the URL being used to set the variable, and the error message you are getting.
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eetuRobo 4,607 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

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Are you using Power Automate Desktop or Power Automate Cloud? If its Power Automate Cloud then do as @David_MA suggested.

In Power Automate Desktop (windows desktop application) you want to add an extra % -sing. So if the URL is "www.example.com/lets%20automate" then it needs to be "www.example.com/lets%%20automate". So you just add an extra percent sign since otherwise PAD thinks there is a variable reference that is not closed since PAD uses % -sings to refer to variables.

So syntax error:

No syntax error with the extra % -sign:

Or you can make be be string: %'www.example.com/lets%20automate'%
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Thanks @eetuRobo and @David_MA

I was using PAD. Thanks a lot