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Catch special characters in a Email subject

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Hey all

 

 

Is there any way, just like in PowerApps with the function IsMatch, to catch special characters like these: 

&_,.';:/""!@$%^+=\|<>{} in a subject from an email. I use this email subject as the title for the attachments that comes with the email.

But if there is a special character in the subject the flow stops working.

 

Now I want to exclude these characters or use the \ or regular expression so the characters are taken literally.

 

Kind regards

 

 

Tom

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    Tom_Slosse Profile Picture
    1,430 on at

    I solved it by using Plumsail their solution linked here:

     

    https://plumsail.com/docs/actions/v1.x/getting-started/use-from-flow.html

     

    You just need to create an account and then you get an api token.

    After that you can build your regex easily.

    Big thanks to Plumsail

     

    Kind regards

     


    Tom

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