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Replace on the first occurance of a text

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I have a variable named listname and i want to remove this list name from the FullPath property. but i only want to remove the first occurrence of the list name. i mean if the list name if part of the item name i do not want to remove , i only want to remove the list name which comes at first. any advice how i can modify the built-in Replace() to only work on the first occurrence?

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    Hi @johnjohnPter ,

     

    Please try this

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    indexOf(variables('originalString'), 'ABC')
    concat(substring(variables('originalString'), 0,outputs('Compose')),'',substring(variables('originalString'), add(outputs('Compose'), length('ABC'))))
     
    vxiaochenmsft_1-1718672871293.png

     

    Best Regards,

    Wearsky

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