Utility - Clean Text

Overview

The 'Utility - Clean Text' action for Power Automate removes specified characters and performs specified clean operations upon the text value provided.

Video Guide

Strip unwanted characters and clean strings in Power Automate

Credit Count

This is a Utility action and therefore consumes only 0.05 credits per operation (except 1 credit on the free plan). For example, 100 operations will consume 5 credits on a trial and all paid plans.

Default Parameters

The default 'Utility - Clean Text' flow action parameters are detailed below:

• Text - The text value to process
• Remove Character Set - Set the collection of characters to remove from the text value provided
• Remove Control Characters - Set whether to remove control characters from the text value
• Remove Invalid Filename Characters - Set whether to remove characters that are invalid in filenames from the text value provided

Advanced Parameters

The advanced 'Utility - Clean Text' flow action parameters are detailed below:

• Trim Result - Set whether white-space should be trimmed from the processed value

Return Parameters

Action Specific Return Values

• Result - The processed text value

Standard Return Values

• OperationId - The unique ID assigned to this operation.
• HttpStatusCode - The HTTP Status code for the response.
• HttpStatusMessage - The HTTP Status message for the response.
• Errors - An array of error messages should an error occur.
• Operation Status - Indicates whether the operation has been completed, has been queued or has failed.