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In my flow, I am sending the DisplayName and email from a power app. I want to include the user first name in the body as a salutation. How can I extract just the first name from DisplayName? Is there a way to do a substring, or Right function?

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ScottShearer 25,331 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Here is an example that should help.

In my test, I am getting the display name from a variable called varDisplayName.

substring(variables('varDisplayName'),0,indexOf(variables('varDisplayName'),' '))

I an using the substring() expression - I am saying that I want part of a string and I want to start at position 0.
I am also saying that I want a certain number of characters - I am looking for the first space and retrieving the position of that space using the indexof() expression. The position of that space is the number of characters I want.

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Thanks, exactly what I needed
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I thought that is what I need. Our Display Name from the adfs is LastName, FirstName and this substring formula returns the LastName only. So I would need everything after the comma.
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OK - try this
first(split(variables('varDisplayName'),','))

Split breaks the string into two parts broken at the comma.
First gets the first row in the table that was created when breaking the string at the comma (i.e. the last name).

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Yep, that did work, except I changed "first" to "last" as I want the first name in the salutation. Thank you for your help
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This very close to what I am endeavouring to for the email salutation. I used

substring(variables('FatherFirstLast'),0,indexOf(variables('FatherFirstLast'),' ')

however, get a "Definition contains invalid parameters." message when I try to save the flow.

So far, I have not been able to sort out why I am getting the error.