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Get items of a Array

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Hi everyone,

 

i would need some help with an array. I get an email whicht looks like this:

 

 

<html>

<head>
 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>

<body>
 <div dir="ltr">
 <div id="gmail-:t0" class="gmail-Ar gmail-Au gmail-Ao">
 <div id="gmail-:sw" class="gmail-Am gmail-aiL gmail-Al editable gmail-LW-avf gmail-tS-tW gmail-tS-tY"
 aria-label="Inhalt der Nachricht" role="textbox" tabindex="1" style="direction:ltr; min-height:296px">
 <div
 style="border:0px; font-variant-numeric:inherit; font-variant-east-asian:inherit; font-variant-alternates:inherit; font-stretch:inherit; font-size:14px; line-height:inherit; font-family:Inter,sans-serif; font-kerning:inherit; font-feature-settings:inherit; margin:0px; padding:0px; vertical-align:baseline; color:rgb(33,35,44); background-color:rgb(255,246,214)">
 <strong
 style="border:0px; font-style:inherit; font-variant:inherit; font-stretch:inherit; font-size:inherit; line-height:inherit; font-family:inherit; font-kerning:inherit; font-feature-settings:inherit; margin:0px; padding:0px; vertical-align:baseline">Vorname</strong>:
 Kathleen</div>
 <div
 style="border:0px; font-variant-numeric:inherit; font-variant-east-asian:inherit; font-variant-alternates:inherit; font-stretch:inherit; font-size:14px; line-height:inherit; font-family:Inter,sans-serif; font-kerning:inherit; font-feature-settings:inherit; margin:0px; padding:0px; vertical-align:baseline; color:rgb(33,35,44); background-color:rgb(255,246,214)">
 <strong
 style="border:0px; font-style:inherit; font-variant:inherit; font-stretch:inherit; font-size:inherit; line-height:inherit; font-family:inherit; font-kerning:inherit; font-feature-settings:inherit; margin:0px; padding:0px; vertical-align:baseline">Nachname</strong>:
 Baier</div>

 

 

I was able to turn this in to an array which looks like this:

 

 

[
 "Vorname: Kathleen",
 "Nachname: Baier"
]

 

 

There are more data of curse. I need to put that data in a SharePoint table but i can't find a way to do so. I tried to transform that Array into a json object so i can use a function like variables('myObject')['Vorname'] but it didn't work. 

 

Can anyone help me on that? 

 

Thanks a lot.

 

Sven

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    Chriddle Profile Picture
    8,729 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

    Chriddle_0-1715098282873.png

    Compose (the HTML)

    Spoiler (Highlight to read)
    <html>
     <head>
     <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
     </head>
     <body>
     <div dir="ltr">
     <div id="gmail-:t0" class="gmail-Ar gmail-Au gmail-Ao">
     <div id="gmail-:sw" class="gmail-Am gmail-aiL gmail-Al editable gmail-LW-avf gmail-tS-tW gmail-tS-tY"
     aria-label="Inhalt der Nachricht" role="textbox" tabindex="1" style="direction:ltr; min-height:296px">
     <div
     style="border:0px; font-variant-numeric:inherit; font-variant-east-asian:inherit; font-variant-alternates:inherit; font-stretch:inherit; font-size:14px; line-height:inherit; font-family:Inter,sans-serif; font-kerning:inherit; font-feature-settings:inherit; margin:0px; padding:0px; vertical-align:baseline; color:rgb(33,35,44); background-color:rgb(255,246,214)">
     <strong
     style="border:0px; font-style:inherit; font-variant:inherit; font-stretch:inherit; font-size:inherit; line-height:inherit; font-family:inherit; font-kerning:inherit; font-feature-settings:inherit; margin:0px; padding:0px; vertical-align:baseline">Vorname</strong>:
     Kathleen
     </div>
     <div
     style="border:0px; font-variant-numeric:inherit; font-variant-east-asian:inherit; font-variant-alternates:inherit; font-stretch:inherit; font-size:14px; line-height:inherit; font-family:Inter,sans-serif; font-kerning:inherit; font-feature-settings:inherit; margin:0px; padding:0px; vertical-align:baseline; color:rgb(33,35,44); background-color:rgb(255,246,214)">
     <strong
     style="border:0px; font-style:inherit; font-variant:inherit; font-stretch:inherit; font-size:inherit; line-height:inherit; font-family:inherit; font-kerning:inherit; font-feature-settings:inherit; margin:0px; padding:0px; vertical-align:baseline">Nachname</strong>:
     Baier
     </div>
     </div>
     </div>
     </div>
     </body>
    </html>
    <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> </head> <body> <div dir="ltr"> <div id="gmail-:t0" class="gmail-Ar gmail-Au gmail-Ao"> <div id="gmail-:sw" class="gmail-Am gmail-aiL gmail-Al editable gmail-LW-avf gmail-tS-tW gmail-tS-tY" aria-label="Inhalt der Nachricht" role="textbox" tabindex="1" style="direction:ltr; min-height:296px"> <div style="border:0px; font-variant-numeric:inherit; font-variant-east-asian:inherit; font-variant-alternates:inherit; font-stretch:inherit; font-size:14px; line-height:inherit; font-family:Inter,sans-serif; font-kerning:inherit; font-feature-settings:inherit; margin:0px; padding:0px; vertical-align:baseline; color:rgb(33,35,44); background-color:rgb(255,246,214)"> <strong style="border:0px; font-style:inherit; font-variant:inherit; font-stretch:inherit; font-size:inherit; line-height:inherit; font-family:inherit; font-kerning:inherit; font-feature-settings:inherit; margin:0px; padding:0px; vertical-align:baseline">Vorname</strong>: Kathleen </div> <div style="border:0px; font-variant-numeric:inherit; font-variant-east-asian:inherit; font-variant-alternates:inherit; font-stretch:inherit; font-size:14px; line-height:inherit; font-family:Inter,sans-serif; font-kerning:inherit; font-feature-settings:inherit; margin:0px; padding:0px; vertical-align:baseline; color:rgb(33,35,44); background-color:rgb(255,246,214)"> <strong style="border:0px; font-style:inherit; font-variant:inherit; font-stretch:inherit; font-size:inherit; line-height:inherit; font-family:inherit; font-kerning:inherit; font-feature-settings:inherit; margin:0px; padding:0px; vertical-align:baseline">Nachname</strong>: Baier </div> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>

    Compose 2 (XML from sanitized HTML)

    xml(
    	replace(
    		outputs('Compose'),
    		'<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">',
    		''
    	)
    )

     

    Select (Grab values using xpath)

    From

    range(0, int(xpath(outputs('Compose_2'), 'count(/html/body/div/div/div/div)')))

    Map (left)

    trim(first(xpath(outputs('Compose_2'), concat('/html/body/div/div/div/div[', add(item(), 1), ']/strong/text()'))))

     Map (right)

    trim(replace(first(xpath(outputs('Compose_2'), concat('/html/body/div/div/div/div[', add(item(), 1), ']/text()'))), ':', ''))

     

    Compose 3 (Convert array to object)

    first(json(replace(string(body('Select')), '},{', ',')))

     

    Chriddle_1-1715098545879.png

     

  • Sven4 Profile Picture
    211 on at

    @Chriddle thanks a lot for your answer. It worked perfectly fine.

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