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Split function between words

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Posted on by Georges 10

Hello All,

 

I'm building a Power Automate that he get the title of an email and return specific words, example the title is : 

Documents for transport CAI n° 1234567– Invoice 0000000000 of 06.04.2022 - AAA1001 - L ORO PARIS CO LTD 12F

 

and in return i want to have only : 1234567 - AAA1001

Do you have any ideas how to break the title and get only these 2 informations ?

 

Thank you,

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    ScottShearer 25,280 Most Valuable Professional on at

    @Georges 

    I am making the assumption that your strings will be formatted the same way each time.  Also, the dashes are not the same throughout - the first dash is different from the others.

    See my example below.  I could have combined everything into one Compose action/expression but that would have been hard to understand and really ugly...

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