Need to find new line characters in a body of text

[cplumblarrick]

But it doesn't seem like you can do this... For example if I try to include "\r\n" within an expression (such as in indexOf), the actual JSON produced will have double escapes (i.e. the assumption is built in that I'm trying to literally look for those backslashes, no matter what) -- This doesn't work and isn't what I want.

e.g. instead of this "@indexOf(string(outputs('Compose_2')),'\r\n')" it will create this "@indexOf(string(outputs('Compose_2')),'\\r\\n')"

There doesn't seem to be any way to directly edit this text either... so it seems like I am stuck. Has anyone figured out a workaround? 

[AlanPs1 · Accepted solution]

Hi @cplumblarrick , thank you for your post in the community 

Here is how I handle new line, please see below:

decodeUriComponent('%0A')

this
is a
few lines of
text with spaces and
carriage returns

split(outputs('Compose_Text'), outputs('Compose_NewLine'))

outputs('Compose_Find_NewLines')[2]

If you implement the steps above, you can get an output like the below

I am hoping this demo puts you on the right track.

If you have found my post helpful, please mark thumbs up.

Any other questions, just ask.

Thanks, Alan

[cplumblarrick]

Thank you @AlanPs1 — that was exactly the workaround I needed. This should let me work with all the characters I’m likely to need, too.

[AlanPs1]

No problem @cplumblarrick 

The pleasure was all mine.

Be sure to post a new thread any time you have any other questions.

If you have found my post helpful, please mark thumbs up.

Any other questions, just ask.

Happy Flowing!

Thanks, Alan

[belallari]

Use decodeUriComponent('%0A') function to get new line code. 

Example below used to break email message into lines

split(outputs('Html_to_text')?['body'],'\n'))  (this does not work)

use

split(outputs('Html_to_text')?['body'],decodeUriComponent('%0A'))

[casueps]

Flow accepts this as a valid expression, however in my case it splits the input line in a random space!

[BambaSeye]

Thank you for your solution.

Work fine !

[LinnZawWin]

Thanks @AlanPs1 

decodeUriComponent('%0A')

saved my life.