In this blog post we will learn how to split string in power automate to an array and how to access array elements in power automate.

Table of Contents

1 How to split string in power automate?
2 how to access array elements in power automate?

How to split string in power automate?

In Power Automate , you can split a string into an array using the split() function.

Example: Suppose we have a flow that receive an input string with the following format text||text||text we need to split the string using the || delimiter and put it in an array

Use split function :In PowerApps, the Split function is used to break a text string into a table of substrings based on a specified delimiter.

Delimiter: The character or characters that define the boundaries between the substrings

Syntax:

Split(Text, Delimiter)

So in our case the delimiter is || so the code of the split function will be as shown below.

split(triggerBody()['text'],'||')

The Out put will be an array of substrings, and you can use it in subsequent steps of your flow.

how to access array elements in power automate?

You can access array elements within various actions like “Compose,” “Apply to each,” or directly in dynamic content.

For example the Output of the previous compose action we can access the elements of the array using it’s index that begin with 0 for the first element, 1 for the second element and so on.

For example to retrieve the second element of the array access it with Youraction[1]