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Textfunctions or substring- what am I doing wrong?

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Posted on by Amrutledge

I have tried to use both textfunctions and substrings in my flow and I keep getting close but no actual solution. I receive a ton of emails that I need to keep track of what is included in the body of the message.  The emails come mainly like this: 

Line 1: column1

Line 2: column2

Line 3: column3

Line 4: column4

 

I tried substring- and got half the information. I tried textfunctions and still can't narrow it down to the right data.  The "line 1:" will always be the same (they are using a template) but the column1 data changes based on what is written. 

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Am I missing something? I have looked at multiple sites and I can't seem to get it narrowed down right. 

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    v-LilyW-msft Microsoft Employee on at

    Hi @Amrutledge 

    Thank you for your posting.

    Do you want to get the data behind 'Line1-4"? If misunderstanding, please kindly let me know.

    I create a Flow to get the data behind ‘Line1-4” and then add the data to an excel.

    You can refer to as below screenshots:

    v-LilyW-msft_0-1623231804286.png

    Expression:last(split(outputs('Compose'),'Line 1: '))

    v-LilyW-msft_1-1623231804290.png

    Expression:first(split(outputs('Compose_2'),' Line 2:'))

    v-LilyW-msft_2-1623231804292.png

    Expression:last(split(outputs('Compose'),'Line 2: '))

    v-LilyW-msft_3-1623231804302.png

    Expression:first(split(outputs('Compose_3'),' Line 3:'))

    v-LilyW-msft_4-1623231804303.png

    Expression:last(split(outputs('Compose'),'Line 3: '))

    v-LilyW-msft_5-1623231804304.png

    Expression:first(split(outputs('Compose_4'),' Line 4:'))

    v-LilyW-msft_6-1623231804304.png

    Expression:last(split(outputs('Compose'),'Line 4: '))

    v-LilyW-msft_7-1623231804305.png

    v-LilyW-msft_8-1623231804310.png

    When receive an email as below:

    v-LilyW-msft_9-1623231804311.png

    The new row will be added to the Excel:

    v-LilyW-msft_10-1623231804313.png

    For more info about these functions you can refer to:

    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/logic-apps/workflow-definition-language-functions-reference

    Hope the content above may help you.

    Best Regards

    Lily

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