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Get file content control output turns to garbage when appended to string

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Im trying to append to a string an output of get file content function in powerautomate. Im trying to get an image. But when I try to to that, the appended turns to garbage data even though when I checked it on the output on the get file content function. 

 

this is what I get 

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when I click this 

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but it turns to this when I try to append it to a string.

 

BusinessApps_2-1697786392653.png

 

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  • annajhaveri Profile Picture
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    @BusinessApps  may i know why you are looking to append string to file content where file is an image file? The Get File Content returns the binary of the file, so you cant append anything to that binary content.

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