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Autoincrement a string Variable in Power Automate

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Posted on by Amolm 19

HI,

I am new to Power platform and trying to work on a simple autoamtion where i need to increement a string variable,

How do I increement a string variable in power Automate?

Example :  VarString : C0001

I need to increement this VarStrng by 1 the result would be C0002,C0003,C0004.. so on.

In NAV we have a inbuild function - "INCSTR" that would increment a string variable. Do we have a similar function in Power Automate?

TIA,

Amol

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  • Parag Chapre Profile Picture
    Parag Chapre 12,254 Most Valuable Professional on at

    Hi Amol,

    Can you please check this article?

    It explains how to increment string variables.

    www.spguides.com/.../

  • Amolm Profile Picture
    Amolm 19 on at

    Thank you, Parag!

    I appreciate you helping here. I went through the article which you shared. However, this won’t work in my scenario.

    Reason :

    The string is “C0001” and I need to increment to “C0002”, “C0003”, “C0004”..  and so on.

    Once I remove the 1st letter and convert the rest to integer the value becomes “1” instead of “0001”.

    In this case, later I need t o append a “C” and extra “0” to match the string length and create the final string value. This would take a lot of extra steps.

    I was hoping to find if we have some inbuild functions which can take care of this.

    In NAV we can use INCSTR() to take care of such increments. Not sure in Power Automate.

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