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I have a variable which I would like to restrict to the first 100 characters. How would I include this as an expression in my flow?
Hi @tpitman,
That would be something like below.
substring('<text>', <startIndex>, <length>)
In your case:
substring(outputs('Compose'), 0, 100)
Below is an example in a Compose
You can also use the substring action instead.
Thank you very Much!!
I think this is better:
if(greater(length(outputs('Compose')),100),substring(outputs('Compose'), 0, 100),outputs('Compose'))
Hi @VictorIvanidze,
Yes, I totally agree. It is definitely good practice to check if the value actually is greater than 100 characters before using the substring function 👍
I just wanted to start simple, by first explaining the substring function. I assumed this was going to be a follow-up question after my first reply and I would have explained the length and greater functions than. I was aiming for the step-by-step explanation approach 😁
Thank you both.
The text is ALWAYS going to be > 100 so it should be fine 🙂
out of interest, if I wanted to extract a string with characters 5-8, would it be as simple as "Starting position" 5, length 3
Using the substring action of course
Try it!
Yep! that works!! 🙂
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