how do I add a new line or carriage return into a string?

[LasseT]

Hi,

I'm building a string of attached files in a SharePoint list (filename and URL for each attachment) to go into an email.

It works, but I would like a new line between each attachment in the email, how do I add a new line or carriage return into a string?

There is a similar subject post but I could not get anything to work?!?

So atm, my output is something like this:

File1 Url1 File2 Url2 File3 Url3 ...

and I would like:

File1 Url1

File2 Url2

File3 Url3

...

[Anonymous]

Hello!

Have you tried putting the return after your data in the "Append to string" variable action?

at the end you will have a single return, but I assume that wouldn't be a problem as the string is being dropped into an email.

I had my Flow loop through the rows in an excel table and append the value in the "Title" column to the string variable plus a carriage return, so every iteration of the loop adds the data to the blank line created in the last loop then adds a new line. I threw the variable into a Compose to see the output and it looked like it worked.

Please tell me if this works for you!

Kyle

[LasseT · Accepted solution]

So after pulling my hair out for a while, I found that since the string is going inside an email I could add the HTML code </br> at the end to solve the problem.

[Anonymous]

Glad you found a solution!

Good to know, too! I am not too HTML savvy, myself.

Have a good one!

[Anonymous]

Hi Kyle,

Will you please elaborate on what steps you followed for this ("I threw the variable into a Compose to see the output and it looked like it worked.")? I am also facing same issue and getting blank line in between and also header names keep on repeating during the append operation.

[pm325]

"Compose" is an action that allows you to see the output of a previous step. So in this sense, he added the previous step into a compose action and it shows that the </ br> is correctly formatting the string.