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Extract a telephone number from an email to Excel

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Hi all,
First post :)   (and new to PowerA)

I have been searching on here, youtube, websites, etc etc trying to find the answer, but not having much luck.

I created a simple flow in PA, to look at emails, and extract data and add to a row (table) in an excel file.
That flow picks up the:     FROM   \    Subject        \  Data received.

I know i need to add "HTML TO TEXT" into the flow, along with BODY so it can read the email.

What i want is, is it possible to extract telephone numbers ?
My excel file (Table) has 4 columns which are:        FROM   |  SUBJECT  |  RECEIVED  |  TELEPHONE
The first 3 fields get popuplated as its easy to tell the Flow to get that data, but i am stuck on the telephone number.

In any email that comes in, the telephone number might begin with +44 0000 000000   , or:   0208 0000000  (example)  , and could be anywhere in the email.
I cant figure out how to get PA to find/identify the number so it can write it to the table in my excel file.

Is it possible to extract telephone numbers ?
 
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