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How to create an exact match in Power automate (desktop)

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Posted on by ronxD07 9

I'm a newbie to PA and need support

 

I have recently created a flow to input data from excel to a website, perform search and extract the data back to excel. However, I'm facing a problem - if i search number 1, the website displays results all the entries that start with a 1 i.e. 11, 12, 100, 101, 113, ...etc. 
Hence, the flow is not scraping the exact data. 

Is there anyway to match it to the entry for 1 and not 11, 12. 
I tried UI element extraction, if (attribute value match). Not creating ideal data match

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  • Agnius Bartninkas Profile Picture
    Agnius Bartninkas Most Valuable Professional on at

    This is not as much a thing for PAD, as it is for the web page. You need the web page search to return exact matches. It may not be possible, depending on how the page is built.

     

    But you can also use Extract data from web page to extract all the data and then use Find or replace in data table to find the specific row where the value is an exact match. Make sure you enable the "Match entire cell contents" toggle - this will result in checking for exact matches:

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    You might also want to specify which specific column to search in by selecting "On column" in the "Search by" property:

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    Doing this will result in a data table called %DataTableMatches% which will contain row indexes for rows from the original table that match your search criteria. You can then use those indexes to retrieve the actual values.

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  • Srini007 Profile Picture
    Srini007 3,490 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

    Hi @ronxD07 

     

    Let suppose you want to select the 11 then you have to type 11 instead of 1 and then it is always the 1st element where it will appear

     

    another check we can do is while clicking the element you need to pass the value to the selector so that it will click on the option which is exactly same of 11 not any other value

     

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    If this reply answers your question or solves your issue, please ACCEPT AS SOLUTION

     

    Thanks,

    Srini

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