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Hello,

New to power apps (mainly a VBA hobbyist) - so apologies for posting what I'm sure is bound to be a very basic question.

I'm using Text Recognizer and need to lift a specific code from all the text in the picture that matches a mask of:

"[A-z]/d/d/d/d[A-z][A-z]"

I want to both display that number in a label and then do further comparisons with it later in the app (so being able to both display and set as a variable for further use).

I've set the "on change" property of the TextRecognizer to put the result in a Variable. I then have another (temporary) label that concatenates all the OCR data into a Text a single string.

In a second label I'm experimenting with the Match function to try and lift the matching code from the text in Label1.

Match(Label1.Text,"[A-z]/d/d/d/d[A-z][A-z]")

I get an error. It think it's because Label2 wants a text value, and Match is returning a Record value.

I think the value I want is in the "FullMatch" column of that Record.

But I have no idea how to access it.

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JEA_123 11 on at

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Never mind!
It was as simple as
Match(Label1.Text,"[A-z]/d/d/d/d[A-z][A-z]").FullMatch

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slima1 69 on at

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Set the Text property of "ResultLabel" to:
If(IsMatch(Label1.Text, "[A-Z]/d/d/d/d[A-Z][A-Z]"), Match(Label1.Text, "[A-Z]/d/d/d/d[A-Z][A-Z]").FullMatch, "No Match Found")

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JEA_123 11 on at

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Thanks for your help, but that doesn't work in my application.
I think the IsMatch is always returning False because there is more text than just the code I'm looking to extract in Label1.

It has inspired me to find another way to return "Not Found", as that would show the user that the app is working but hasn't found the code.

This works for me:
If( IsBlank(Match(Label1.Text,"[A-z]\d\d\d\d[A-z][A-z]").FullMatch) , "Not Found", Match(Label1.Text,"[A-z]\d\d\d\d[A-z][A-z]").FullMatch)

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