Parsing Email Body with a URL that Changes

[soylaunica]

I'm currently working on a multi-level approval workflow where we are parsing out an email and taking the information to pass-through to a quote approval request formatted email to get approved. Below you will find the structure of the email. My biggest hiccup currently is related to the link that follows "Please click to open quote attachment". A requester can add any number of file types for the customer to review as supporting documentation for the quote. Because the last part of the url will change based on the file name, I find myself at a loss as to the best way to parse it out without throwing an error. Additionally, if the user does not attached supporting documents, that verbiage and url are not there in the email at all. This is the current expression I have, but I know that it will eventually throw an error. the replace '-' with '' is to accommodate the possibility of a signature line that's embedded into our email when we send. Which also may or may not happen. Any recommendations? I have put "x" for confidentiality but the character count is accurate.

Email output to be parsed:

Quote#: 1234

Quote Amt: 10.00

BU#: 1234567

Customer Email: xxxxx@xxx.com

Originator Email: xxxxxx@xx.xxxxxx.com

Please click to open quote attachment

xxxxs://xxxxxxxxxx.xx.xxxxxxxx.com/QuoteDocs/filename.filetype

Expression to parse out URL

if(contains(substring(body('Html_to_text'),indexOf(body('Html_to_text'),'https'),add(sub(add(lastIndexOf(body('Html_to_text'),'QuoteDocs'),10),indexOf(body('Html_to_text'),'https')),50)),'-'),trim(replace(substring(body('Html_to_text'),indexOf(body('Html_to_text'),'https'),add(sub(add(lastIndexOf(body('Html_to_text'),'QuoteDocs'),10),indexOf(body('Html_to_text'),'https')),50)),'-','')),trim(substring(body('Html_to_text'),indexOf(body('Html_to_text'),'https'),add(sub(add(lastIndexOf(body('Html_to_text'),'QuoteDocs'),10),indexOf(body('Html_to_text'),'https')),50))))

[RezaDorrani]

Hi @soylaunica 

since the url is always the last line in your text body

first create a Compose action 

rename it to NewLine

and use following expression

decodeUriComponent('%0A')

then use expression below to get the url

last(split(body('Html_to_text'),outputs('NewLine')))

this will give you the url

Regards,

Reza Dorrani

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[soylaunica · Accepted solution]

Hi @RezaDorrani,

This almost worked, but was still giving me an isuse if there was a signature in there. So I ran with what you did and ended up doing the following with 3 compose actions, please feel free to let me know if there is a different, better or best practice way of achieving the same thing:

[RezaDorrani]

@soylaunica 

if it works then code is fine 🙂

If it is not working then share the structure (sample data)

Regards,

Reza Dorrani

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