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I have a flow that isolates a certain string, and that string contains spaces. I have a compose function to then replace the spaces with no space using expression:

replace(variables('email'),' ','')

... the flow thinks it's finished successfully, but the output of that compose still has the spaces.

I've tried a bunch of different things, and at this point I'm thinking that PA doesn't see those spaces as spaces...?

I'm hoping this is something folks have seen before...? Thanks in advance for any suggestions for fix...

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SpongYe 5,909 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi @Murphys110

You have a screenshot of the flow and expression and screenshot of the results?

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Thank you SpongYe, I've updated the original post to include screenshots.

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Nived_Nambiar 18,138 Super User 2026 Season 1 on at

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Hi @Murphys110

Try this expression -

replace(variables('email'),decodeUriComponent('%20'),'')

Well your expression is also correct - not sure why it is not working- but just try above and see whether you are getting expected ?

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Thanks for the suggestion, but unfortunately that didn't work...
I did try something simple that ended up working... I reviewed the outputs of a flow run, and copied the 'space' between the characters... pasted that into the expression, and success! Not sure what exactly was going on, but seems to be fixed.

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