I have text that populates when I do a pull from a SharePoint list in PowerAutomate. The text populates as:
{"#data.type":"#Text.SharePoint.Text":1,"Value":"Normal"}
How can I clean this in PowerAutomate so that just the portion that says Normal (without quotations) appears?
As other commenters pointed out before, the sample text is not a well-formed JSON. The solution would be very straightforward if the text was a JSON object - you could simply use the Parse JSON data operation. Maybe it makes sense to format the output from SharePoint properly to clean the data.
With the given string, you can use Compose actions to split the text into an array and remove extra characters from an array element.
The first Compose expression is split(variables('InputString'), ':')
It returns an array of text parts.
This is the output which will be fed to the next action.
[
"{\"#data.type\"",
"\"#Text.SharePoint.Text\"",
"1,\"Value\"",
"\"Normal\"}"
]
Second Compose removes curly brackets and quotation marks:
replace(replace(last(outputs('Compose')), '"', ''), '}', '')
As a side note, applying a regular expression to the input text would be a neater way to extract a piece of text, but Power Automate does not have native support of regular expressions, and I'm not considering third-party connectors.
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I'm trying to extract part of a file name using expressions in ADF expression builder. The part I'm trying to extract is dynamic in size but always appears between "_" and "-".
How can I go about doing this extraction?
Thanks!
Suppose there's a pipeline parameter named filename, you could use the below expression to extract value between '_' and '-', e.g. input 'ab_cd-', you would get 'cd' as output:
#{substring(pipeline().parameters.fileName, add(indexOf(pipeline().parameters.fileName, '_'),1),sub(indexOf(pipeline().parameters.fileName, '-'),3))}
You may want to check the documentation of Expressions and functions in Azure Data Factory for more details: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/data-factory/control-flow-expression-language-functions#string-functions
I have a calculation which will remove a blank space and replace with a full stop. This is correct for 90% of my cases. However, sometimes two blanks will appear in my value. For the second space I want to delete it. Is this possible?
I think it may be possible using a code stage, but I am not sure what the code would be.
My current calculation is Replace([Item Data.Name], " ", ".")
Example data John B Smith I want the result to be John.BSmith
For anything that'd like to do with the strings, there is a really powerful tool called Regular Expressions (regex). I encourage you to play with it, because it's a really powerful tool in the hands of RPA developer.
To replace the second space in any string with a "." you can use the following action.
Object: Utility - Strings
Action: Regex - Find and Replace
Input:
Regex Pattern: "(?<= .*) "
Text: "John B Smith"
Replacement: "."
The above action is not a standard Blueprism one, so it has to be added to your VBO. The action looks as follows:
The VB.net code for that action is as follows:
Dim R as New Regex(Regex_Pattern, RegexOptions.SingleLine)
Dim M as Match = R.Match(Text)
replacement_result = R.Replace(Text,Regex_Pattern,replacement_string)
There might be a need for some additional assemblies, so please see below a printscreen of references and namespaces used in my object:
I resolved this issue by using the Utility - Strings object and the split text action. I split my name by space. This outputted a collection which I was then able to loop through and add a full stop after the fist instance but then trim the other instances.
Please see screenshot
I think the simplest solution would be
Replace(Replace(Text," "," ")" ","."))
if you know that it will give one or two spaces
First replace the two white spaces to single and then again single white space to dot(.)
I need to get the pieces of text out of text)). Very simple example actually, but gives me quite some pain.
Here is the sample text, it is an email template:
{!Account.Name}
Hi hi there {!Account.Id + 'cool'}.
Very interesting stuff - {!Contact.Description}
Now we get {!Contact.Description + Contact.Email__c}
So I need all the occurances of text like Account.Name, but only those which are within opening "{!" and closing "}" tags.
What is the simplest/starting approach to do it? Note that in case of the last line, I need to get the two occurances, Contact.Description and Contact.Email__c.
Thanks a lot for any help!
I would just do a plain text search for {...} blocks and parse their content with a simple expression parser. Don't try to come up with a parser that gets all the text and must be prepared to deal with any rubbish that can come in outside of the blocks (which could ultimatively lead to security problems).
I have a parameter called Analyst group in this format :
[Dimension].[Analyst Group].&[Nl.Workplace.Foundation]
I want to pass this parameter to another report, to filter data. Its a multi value parameter. But the other report only accepts it in this format : [KanBan].[Analyst Group].&[Nl.Workplace.Foundation]
So im trying to isolate the "Nl.Workplace.Foundation", so i can do the following thing in the Go To Report parameter expression :="[KanBan].[Analyst Group].&["& --Isolated analyst group-- &"]" to create the desired format.
So what i need is to extract the part between .&[ and ]
But i really have no idea how to isolate that part of the string.
Found a solution! If i just use the Parameter.label instead of Parameter.value it automatically does what i want!
A different solution has been found, but I will still answer the initial question. It could help.
So what i need is to extract the part between .&[ and ]
You could use a regex.
This may not be the fastest way but it can handle most of the situations.
So let's assume you have a string containing:
[Dimension].[Analyst Group].&[Nl.Workplace.Foundation]
And you want to get the following string:
Nl.Workplace.Foundation
Just use the following expression:
=System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Match("[Dimension].[Analyst Group].&[Nl.Workplace.Foundation]", "\.&\[(?<NWF>[^]]+)\]").Groups("NWF").Value
In the expression, replace the input string with your dynamic values, like for example:
=System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Match(Fields!Dimension.Value & "." & Fields!AnalystGroup.Value, "\.&\[(?<NWF>[^]]+)\]").Groups("NWF").Value
I'm keeping the formula as simple as possible so that you can easily adapt it, with, say, handling the case where an input string will not have a match (with the above query it will return #Error).
You could do this by adding an IIF() or better, use a custom function that you can reuse in several places and will reduce the length of your expression.
I am using redis storing data, datas are combinated sequences of values, a sequece is combined with separator : and several string values, for example:
value1:value2:value3
the problem is those values may contain : in them, my first thought is escaping : to :: in the values, and then combine them, and I can split them by a solo :.
but this is not perfect, because {'abc', 'aaa:', 'bbb'} will be escaped to {'abc', 'aaa::', 'bbb'} and combined to abc:aaa:::bbb, it's unresolveable. this is probably a stupid question, I'm stuck, how would you solve the problem, or any better suggestion ?
I would instead suggest enclosing the values while inserting using a special identifier towards the beginning and end of string each and then combining them. e.g :
{'%abc%', '%aaa:%', '%bbb%'}
So whenever you want to split them again you can split them using your separator and then replace the prepended and appended value as per you convention to get the original string.
Hope that Helps!