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Posted on by Mysterious 69

Hello Everyone,

I created a power automate flow and used switch. As condition I used slice function but it's showing an error while testing.

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 This is my whole Content and I just need to extract RITM0338201 as my output.
 Has anybody a clue what I have to do here, because i don't.

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    CFernandes 8,504 Most Valuable Professional on at

    @Mysterious - For Slice you need to pass a integers and you formula should be 

     

    slice(outputs('Compose'),19,30)
     
    Change the outputs('Compose') with your triggerbody.
     
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    I appreciate your help so much.

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