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I am trying to add a string to an array. And it works however the result is not what I was hoping for.

So the string is:

{"Title": "Edward"}

and the array is:

[ {"Title": "Lyn"},{"Title": "Andy"}, {"Title": "James"}, {"Title": "Paul"}

]

the result:

[

{

"Title": "Lyn"

{

"Title": "Andy"

{

"Title": "James"

{

"Title": "Paul"

"{\"Title\": \"Edward\"}"

]

How can I add it so that it doesn't add in the extra double quotes and the back slashes?

Thanks

Dan

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Hello,

This blog goes deep into getting rid of special characters from an output.

Here is the link to the blog post:
https://www.alanps1.io/power-platform/flow/flow-stripping-unwanted-characters-or-special-characters-from-a-string/

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Hi
So are you saying, add it as I've done and then remove the additional quotes and backslashes that are not required? I was thinking I am not appending the string correctly - because its adding the string to the end of the array but what I want is to add the string as an item of the array?

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Dan

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Could you post a picture of your flow.
Thanks

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This website wont let me add a screenshot keeps telling me invalid html was found.

Basically I have 4 steps.
1 - initialise a string variable (aUser) and its value is {"Title": "Edward"}
2 - initialise an array variable (someUsers) and its value is
[ {"Title": "Lyn"},{"Title": "Andy"}, {"Title": "James"}, {"Title": "Paul"}
]
3 - Append to array variable - where name is someUsers and value is aUser
4 - Compose someUsers

I guess it works it in the sense that it does append the string to the array, but that's not what I want, I want to add the string as a new item/element to the array? I hope that makes sense!

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Hi
I managed to work around what I was trying to do. I dont really need the Title part within the array I was trying to use so I used your advice to strip away the multiple instances of Title and left myself with an array that looks like [Lyn, Andy, James, Paul] and now I can add items into it!

cheers
Dan

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