How to split string in flow designer?

[nayanmule]

Hi All,

I want to get values from one field in change request & populate it in another field on a change task form.

for eg. if I have a Change Plan field which has following values - 

newservername = testt123
oldservername = test256
cutoverdate = 03/23/2025
plantname = US
plantid = 1356.

I want to populate these values in change task description .

for eg. Change task - Update the 'newservername' to 'oldservername'.

I have multiple change tasks created through flow designer. I would like to know how can I split the string and use the values in change tasks or anywhere I need in flow designer.

Thankyou!

[nayanmule · Accepted solution]

Thankyou everyone for your responses. 

I have achieved it by creating an action. Within an action, I have added a script using inputs and outputs.

(function execute(inputs, outputs) {

// ... code ...

var data = inputs.inputString;

var lines = data.split('\n');   // this will split the string based on lines

var values = [];

for(var i=0;i<lines.length;i++){

    var parts = lines[i].split('=');    //this will split the string one more time using =

    if(parts.length  === 2){

        values.push(parts[1].trim());   //trim the second value string to remove unwanted spaces.

    }

}

outputs.newservername = values[0];

outputs.oldservername = values[1];

outputs.cutoverdate = values[2];

[Mark Manders]

Great that this works, but do realize that the Change Plan field is a string field and can contain lots of things. If any one, at any points switches lines, or adds lines to it, your order isn't correct anymore.