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Posted on by Meier

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Hello everyone, i am new to Microsoft Flow.

My question is, is it possible for me to parse/check a file line-by-line to see if a string exist?

I would like to check an input string to the .txt file, line per line to see if there is a match.

Example:

Input String: Dave

Check test.txt on OneDrive

test.txt file content:

John

Tom

Aden

Dave

Maggie

Jim

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Re: Is it possible to check a file for specific text?

@Meier

The file content should be plain text, so you can use the indexOf expression to see if your text is present in the file. Note that the search is case sensitive. The indexOf() expression returns -1 if the text is not found. See my example below:

File contents:

My Flow - expression can be seen in the comments area:

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