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Hi,

I am new to Power Automate but have had a lot of experience in UiPath. While I find some things easier in PAD, I find doing the more technical things much harder as this is my very first search on the web and forums.

If I am doing Regex I can't seem to see the LF, CR, etc. There is no way to easily show the characters in the file I need to parse. I have no way to pause the code and work in a window to do immediate actions on it to experiment without running the code again. It may be ignorance. But I hope there is an easy way.

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Power Automate Desktop

Hello,

If I am doing Regex I can't seem to see the LF, CR, etc. There is no way to easily show the characters in the file I need to parse.

If you need find new lines / linebreaks you could try:

Or you could set empty variable and append new line to it and then use that as the expression to search:

I have no way to pause the code and work in a window to do immediate actions on it to experiment without running the code again.

You can use break points to pause the flow on certain action

And you can start the flow from any action you want (as long as its not inside a any block like a loop, condtion, region or error block).

Also you could structure the flows to be in subflows so you can more easily run just one part of the flow and not the whole flow.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/desktop-flows/debugging-flow

Hope these help. If you need further assistance please provide example scenarios of the problems you have and I'll see if I can give solutions that better suit your needs.