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Issue handling natural % signs in piece of text

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Hi all, I'm using power automate desktop to extract chunks of text from a pdf and then asking chatgpt to summarise each chunk of text. In most cases everything works fine but the routine is crashing with one particular chunk of text. I think it is because this particular piece of text includes a lot of natural percentage signs (e.g. 75%, 15%, etc.). I understand that one possible approach to avoid this issue is to replace all instances of % with %% but I have not been able to find a way to do this in power automate desktop. I'd be very grateful if anybody could steer me towards a solution.

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  • Agnius Bartninkas Profile Picture
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    What's the error that you get when you try to run the text with percentage symbols through ChatGPT?

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    Hi @Rory_Walsh 

     

    I don't think this happens due to the % sign, as @Agnius  share the error details so that it is possible to do a study on that to resolve it 🙂

     

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    37 on at

    Hi Agnius, 

    Thanks for response. 
    I think the text with % signs was actually offending PAD, not ChatGPT. 
    I eventually figured out that I could do a replace text by setting %% as a the text to find and "percentage" as the replacement. This produced a piece of text that did not offend PAD and made sense to ChatGPT. 

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    This makes a lot of sense. Please mark your own answer as the solution to the topic, so that others can find it easier if they face a similar issue in the future.

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