Power Automate Functions - CONTAINS Function

CONTAINS Function

What is CONTAINS function?

CONTAINS FUNCTION is used to check whether the given object exists in this array or not.

Description:

In this guide, we will discuss how to use the float function in power automation. Let us create a new flow. To create a new flow follow the following instructions:

Go to power Apps:

Navigate to Flows:

Click on the ‘New Flow’ button:

After clicking new flow, select ‘Instant Cloud flow’ form the dropdown:

Finally set its name and select ‘manually’ as flow trigger point:

In the below screenshot we set the Name of flow and its trigger point which is ‘Manually trigger a flow. Finally, click on the create button to create a new flow. 

First, add INITIALIZE VARIABLE ACTION:

To initialize a variable select initialize variable action from the actions set. Then set its properties the same as mentioned in the screenshot.

1# INITIALIZE VARIABLE ACTION

INITIALIZE VARIABLE:

Initialize a variable having the following attributes. 

Name: set variable name

Type: set the type of variable as ‘array’

Value: “WILLIAM’, ‘NOAH”, “LIAM”, “JAMES”

1# ADD COMPOSE ACTION

Add compose action to this flow to call contains function. In the function, I pass ‘LIAM’ as parameter to check this name is exists in the array or not

CODE:

contains(variables('BOYS NAMES'), 'LIAM')

OUTPUT:

The function return us a true value means ‘Liam’ name exist in the given array and our workflow is correct