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Finding Filename Subtexts Within PDF

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I am working on a subflow that needs to find every filename of variable character length within a specified PDF file. Each filename is preceded by 'file#:' and is followed by '/', though '/' also occurs in other places within the document. ex: file#: 1234-56-78A/.

So far I have tried the following which is not working:

Parse text for 'file#' stored into FileStartPostions

For each CurrentItem in FileStartPositions{

Parse text for '/' starting at position CurrentItem and find the first occurrence only, store into endOfName

Get subtext starting at character CurrentItem with length CurrentItem - endOfName

}

I am getting an Error saying CurrentItem - endOfName must be an integer.

I'm new to Power Automate, any suggestions?

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WorkingForFood 99 on at

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Are you using an integer for the Character Position input of the activity Get subtext? That could explain the error you are getting.

On a separate note, if your string of file names is like this "#file123filename/#fileotherfile" then you could first split the data by "/#file" and then remove the first reference to #file. That said, it's hard to know without seeing your data or flow.

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LionGate 10 on at

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Thanks, I realized that I was entering it wrong. I was using %endOfName% - %CurrentItem% instead of %endOfName - CurrentItem%

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