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Powerapps String Examples, including Powerapps Concat

By Emily

After working on a PowerApps project recently I needed to manipulate a few strings, substitute or replace a substring, concatenate two strings, that kind of thing and couldn’t find many PowerApps examples that were quite what I was looking for. I’ve therefore summarised a few PowerApps string functions in this post so if you are looking for help using Powerapps Concat for instance this post should help you..

How to replace a substring in a string

In order to replace a string in Powerapps use the Substitute method, and specify which substring you want to replace, and what string to replace it with. For example:

//Set the main string
Set(mainString,"Fill my glass with water.");

//Change character(s), with another
Set(mainString, Substitute(mainString,"water","beer"));

If you put a label on your screen so that it shows the variable mainString then you’ll see that after running that code mainString is “Fill my glass with beer.” because the word water has been replaced with the word beer in the original sentence.

How to replace a character in a string in Powerapps

Another way you might want to use this is to substitute a comma with a semi colon in your PowerApps string for instance, or a full stop (period) for an exclamation mark, in which case it would look like this:

//Set the main string
Set(mainString,"Fill my glass with beer.");

//Change character(s), with another
Set(mainString, Substitute(mainString,".","!"));

… and after running that code mainString is “Fill my glass with beer!

How to replace a line ending in a string

I had to read data in from a Sharepoint list and some of the longer text fields contained a line ending which caused some issues in the Powerapps project. In this case it worked to replace the line ending (char(10)) with a comma, like this:

Substitute(mainString,Char(10),",")

How to concatenate strings – PowerApps concat

To join multiple strings in PowerApps use the Concatenate function like this:

//Create a string and save it in a variable
Set(firstString,"This is the complete string");

//Create a second string and save it in a variable
Set(secondString," in one sentence.");

//Prepend first string to second string
Set(finalstring,Concatenate(firstString,secondString));

If you now write finalString to a label you will see this sentence – “This is the complete string in one sentence.”

Note – I will be adding more useful PowerApps string examples here as they come up. You may also want to read my post about getting started with PowerApps.