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I am trying to post the message into Microsoft Teams whenever recieving email messages from certain system, using Flow bot.
This message always contains URL, and needs to convert the URL to markdown so that posted message in Teams contains clickable URL (not just text).

I understand we can use the markdown to specify the beginning of the URL as:
replace(variables('TransBody1'),'https:','[Please click here to see the contents](https:')

But having difficulty specifying the end of the URL, as URL is getenarated randomly with unique ID each time, such as "https://foo.com/test.asp?ID=23" where the last ID number always changes.
This is preventing from making a markdown TransBody as URL ending can not be specified.
replace(variables('TransBody2'),'ID=RAMDOM_ENDING_ID','ID=RANDOM_ENDING_ID)') <== where "RAMDOM_ENDING_ID" is unique number each time...

Is there a way to grab the variable string in Flow?

Thank you in advance.

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Building flows

@Takashi1

Hi there! So, probably a couple of ways to do this depending on your comfort level. You seem fine with expressions (which I'm not)...but it feels like we could probably do some string manipulation using "indexof" and/or "lastindexof" to find the positions of "?ID=" and whatever character follows the end of the URL, then use "substring" to single out those bits with a bit of math (to figure the length of the ID).

Another option would be a parsing tool like Parserr or Plumsail to do essentially the same thing, but with a friendlier interface.

Do either of those sound good?

-Ed-

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