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Posted on by SDineshBabu 12
Hello all.

I have an out from get file content as. (Reading text file)

ERID:31200
CaseNumber:12345
 
From this I need to extract CaseNumber (12345).

I've tried the following expression  trim(split(split(body('Get_file_content'), '\n')[1], ':')[1])
But getting out of index error.
 
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    trice602 15,915 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at
    Hi,
     
    One way to do this is to find the position of the label "Case Number" then add 11 to it and extract the next 5 characters, shown below.  Remember this is 0-based use adjust the "12" number of characters to match the actual format in your text.
     
    substring(body('Get_file_content'), add(indexOf(body('Get_file_content'), 'CaseNumber:'), 12), 5)
     
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