LowerCase first letter in each sentence in paragraph power automate

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Hello Power users,

Let's say I have a paragraph as

"Each template is designed for a specific purpose. For example, there are templates for sending you a text message when your boss emails you, adding Twitter leads to Dynamics 365, or backing up your files. These templates are just the tip of the iceberg. They're intended to inspire you to create customized flows for the exact processes you need.Need help please"

And I would like to have first letter in each sentence to be lowered like

"each template is designed for a specific purpose. for example, there are templates for sending you a text message when your boss emails you, adding Twitter leads to Dynamics 365, or backing up your files. these templates are just the tip of the iceberg. they're intended to inspire you to create customized flows for the exact processes you need.need help please"

Is there a possible way to achieve this. Can anyone please help me?

Thank you so much in advance!

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Luis Arellano 247 on at

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Hello,

This is a strange requirement but here is my attempt at this.
Consider that there will be some things that will break it like having more than 1 space at the beginning of a sentence.

Create avariable where you will get the final text.
In this case I am calling it 'finalText'

Compose action to separate the sentences, assuming you have the text in a variable called "text"
@{split(variables('text'),'.')}

Apply to each using the outputs from the compose action
@{outputs('Compose')}

Compose action to now separate each work
@{split(item(), ' ')}

Condition to check if it starts with a space
outputs('wordSplit')[0]

If yes (note that there is a space at the beginning, this is intended for formatting)
@{toLower(outputs('wordSplit')[1])} @{join(skip(outputs('wordSplit'),2),' ')}.

If no
@{toLower(outputs('wordSplit')[0])} @{join(skip(outputs('wordSplit'),1),' ')}.

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Matthy79 4,180 Super User 2024 Season 1 on at

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Hello @KrishR ,

as @LuisArellano already said this is really a strange requirment. Please tell me where you need something like this. It looks like homework from school to me 😉

If you don't care about the possibility to have more than one space at the beginning of a sentence (olso mentioned by @LuisArellano ) this would work too.

if(startsWith(item(), ' '), concat(toLower(take(item(), 2)), skip(item(), 2)), concat(tolower(take(item(), 1)), skip(item(), 1)))

After that you can use join to put the paragraph together again.

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VictorIvanidze 13,073 on at

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For what? Why do you need such illogical text transformation?

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KrishR 431 on at

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Hi @AlexEncodian , @VictorIvanidze , @Matthy79 and @LuisArellano ,

Thank you so much for all your help in this. I do have a drop down with multiple(multiple text) values to select which has the Sentence starts with Capital letter. These selected options are used in Microsoft word doc generation and they would be used as reasons in a sentence which needs to be lower cased at the beginning of each sentence.

I'm not sure if there is any other way, thought there would be a possibility this way and wanted to check.

Thank you so much once again for all your help 🙂

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