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Posted on by Davidn7 12

Hi. I have an outlook mailbox mensage in the following format:

 

Email notification!

text1/ text2 / text3/ text4 

Thank you for using our Plataform!

How can i extract:
text1

text2 

text3

text3

 

Thank you for your support

 

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    Sundeep_Malik 6,501 on at

    Hey @Davidn7 

    I have a solution for you if the body of the email remains static always like the above case.

    Do the following:

    First use html to text action:

    Sundeep_Malik_0-1664468476106.png

    Take a string variable with empty line:

    Sundeep_Malik_2-1664468539228.png

     

     

    After that use the following expression in a compose:

    split(split(replace(outputs('Html_to_text')?['body'],'/',''),variables('A'))[2],' ')

    Sundeep_Malik_1-1664468489223.png

    Firstly I have done replace to remove the / slash. After that I am splitting whereever it finds an extra line. So while using the html to text an extra line comes. After that I am using another split to just take out the text values.

    You can also use separate compose actions and expressions as well:

    Separate expressions:

    replace(outputs('Html_to_text')?['body'],'/','')

    split(outputs('Compose_2'),variables('A'))

    split(outputs('Compose_3')[2],' ')

    Sundeep_Malik_3-1664468741521.png

     

    Final Output:

    Sundeep_Malik_4-1664468786282.png

     

     

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