Retrieve characters/Substring from string in Cloud Flows
In this blog we will see how to retrieve string or characters from string using substring and take method
When we want to retrieve character/string from starting index then will use take() method, else will use substring()
Let say we want to retrieve first 5 character from string.
Eg. – string is Power Automate
We will demonstrate this with both the cases.
- Using Substring
Here we are retrieving first 5 characters from string i.e. Power
Expression used –
substring(‘Power Automate’,0,5)
Output –

2. Using take
Expression used to retrieve string – take(‘Power Automate’,5)
Output –

Hope this helps!