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Power Automate Flow to Check a String contains any special characters like '!@#$%*)('.

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When an email arrives with an attachment I get the name of the attachment, check whether it contains any special characters like '!@#$%*)('. right now, I am doing is checking each of the special characters is there in the attachment name.

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Can anyone get any ideas

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    v-yetonggu-msft Profile Picture
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    Hi @sajinshaji ,

    I did a test for your reference.

    In my scenario:

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    ["'", "!", "@", "£", "^", "=", ",", "%", "[", "]", ";", "~", "?", "<", ">", "|", "u0001", "u0007"]
    item()
    length(body('Filter_array'))

     

    I think this link could help you:

    Remove unwanted characters from a string in Power Automate (tachytelic.net)

    Best Regards,

    Sunshine Gu

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