Converting Email Text to Excel Rows - How To Avoid Duplication?

[LCarpenter]

Good afternoon,

I have a question about parsing text from emails and converting it to rows in an Excel spreadsheet, using Power Automate.

I know it's possible to create an automated flow to look for text inside of an email, and transfer it automatically to Excel. I've been following the instructions here, and they seem to work fine when each question to be extracted is different.

The problem is, if multiple sections have the same wording, how do I keep the flow from extracting text from the wrong section?

For example, here is a form I would like to convert:

As you can see, all three sections have the same verbiage (first name, last name, etc.).

If I want to extract the secondary address, or the address of the legal representative, into a different column, how do I keep it from filling the same one as 'primary address'?

[ScottShearer · Accepted solution]

@LCarpenter 

This will be ugly but you can get it done.

First split on this: 

Then use the Last() expression on the output of the split() - that will give you everying after the text that you split on.

Next, split the output of the last() expression on this:

Use the first() expression on the output - that will isolate all  the questions in section 1.

That should get you started...

[LCarpenter]

@ScottShearer 

Never mind, I found a tutorial! Thanks for the help.