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Posted on by artivo36

Hello community,

I do need to filter for a list item in an array with Power Automate Desktop.

The array looks as followed: see screenshot.

I cannot use the index value since the index of the desired item will change for every run.

Also the value cannot be used completely as its content also changes for every run.

What I need is a filter for a part of the value.

Im my case the property_id 85 is the constant value.

So, what I need is to filter for the line with property_id 85 or delete all the other lines.

Any help is very much appreciated.

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UshaJyothiKasibhotla 225 Moderator on at

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Loop through the array by using for each
Then use if condition
Inside if write the variable contains your constant value which you need to filter
Then
Parse text by using regex take one line and
Use remove text remove all other lines
Hope this helps
Usha

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If this is stored into a text blob initially, you could use Parse text with regular expressions enabled. Parse for { 'property_id': 85[^}]+}

This will return a single value, that you can then convert to a custom object using Convert JSON to custom object.

There is unfortunately no native action in PA to filter a list. An alternative to getting it via text processing would be looping through the values, as suggested by @UshaJyothi20 .

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After having solved this, I need to proceed further to get the "display value" of this particular line staring with "property:_id: 85".
For this I tried to convert the filtered text back into a custom object, but it fails saying that there is an "unexpected character".
Any Idea ?

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If you had converted it to a custom object before using Parse text, that is actually a bad idea. Please parse it as a JSON value, before converting it. Then convert the output of Parse text.

If it still doesn't work, try using Replace text to replace a single quote ' with double quotes " before converting it.

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