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If CurrentItem Contains function not working in Power Automate Desktop

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Posted on by Robinh0 7

Hi there,

 

There seems to be an issue with the Contains function in PAD (or I am doing something wrong on my side).

 

I am scraping a list of the following values, see image 1:

 

Robinh0_0-1661174869108.png

 

However, when I loop through that list and check IF the CurrentItem contains GDXJ (for example), it does not work.

 

Robinh0_2-1661175099200.png

Does anyone know what is going wrong here?

 

 

 

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    MichaelAnnis 5,727 Moderator on at

    Your variable is a datatable. For each looks different for a datatable and actually makes a list of all items in a single row. 

    first use “create list from datatable column” or something like that to turn your results column into a list, then it should work. 

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    Robinh0 7 on at

    Amazing, it works, thank you!

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