MS Flow iterate “;” separated values

Question

I am using SharePoint online as a platform where I have a custom form which has multiselect dropdown control. I'm saving the values of the control using ";" in the single line of text field.

Now I want to iterate each of the values which are saved in the field using MS Flow and for example if there are 4 values such as "abc;xyz;hi;hello", I then want these values to be inserted in another list with each value being an item (row) with title column.

Any help on this would be appreciated.

Answer 1

1. Initialize variable action initialize an array value.In string function, you could find the split function.

 split('abc;xyz;hi;hello',';')

2.Apply to each action and use create item action in it.

Answer 2

You can follow below approach:

1. Add Compose action and use split() function to split the string by ; and get array of substrings.
2. Then use Apply to each action on Output of compose action
3. Inside Apply to each action create a new item in 2nd list using Create item action.

Working flow in action:

Split function formula:

split(outputs('Get_item')?['body/Title'], ';')

Where outputs('Get_item')?['body/Title'] is a column with multiple values separated by ;

Input to Flow:

Output - items create in SharePoint list:

For more information check below references:

1. split string and apply for each
2. Split string into array of characters - empty delimiter not working