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Power Automate Stripping special characters

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Posted on by Keharrin1 20

I have a user who is building a flow to save email messages.  He would like to be able to strip any special characters from the subject line of an email before saving the message.

 

I believe an expression can be used to replace special characters with underline but I am not sure what that expression would look like.

 

Any assistance is appreciated

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    If its the same 1 or 2 special characters, you can use the replace() expression. You'd need a replace for each character so it would not be ideal for a lot of them. 

     

    The syntax is: replace(text: string, oldText: string, newText: string)

     

    Example: replace('!mytext','!','')

    This example removes the ! since there is nothing in the new text section. 

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