What is the expected output?

[Scott_Whittier]

I'm building a flow to parse an email and use portions of the content to generate a new email. It starts with a "When new email arrives trigger" which I then use the "HTML to Text" conversion on. This works and I see the plain text output of the email. The next step is a Compose which uses this expression:

length(body('Html_to_text'))

When the flow runs I get the same thing as an output

length(body('Html_to_text'))

That isn't what I expected. Is this right?

[faustocapellanj · Accepted solution]

Hi @Scott_Whittier

If you typed the expression properly in the Expressions tab, the Compose Output should be a number. Please make sure the expression in your Compose action is exactly as the screenshot below.

Please do not hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.

[Scott_Whittier]

The key was "If you typed the expression properly in the Expressions tab...". I don't know how or when the expression got mangled but when I looked back at it today I found that it was not the same as what I posted. Fixed the expression and it ran like a champ. Thank you!