Power Automate Functions - STARTS WITH or ENDS WITH Function

STARTS WITH OR ENDS WITH Function

What is STARTS WITH OR ENDS WITH function?

STARTS WITH function used to check whether this string starts with a given specific string or not. It will return true or false on the behalf of function.

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’ from 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 ‘STRING’

Value: JOY ROOT

CODE:

startsWith(variables('NAME'), 'JOY')

OUTPUT:

STARTS WITH FUNCTION returns true because the string is starting with ‘joy’

2# ADD ANOTEHR COMPOSE ACTION

Add another compose action for ENDS WITH function

INPUT:

endsWith(variables('NAME'), 'CUTTING')

OUTPUT:

ENDS WITH FUNCTION return false because there are no ‘CUTTING’ words in a given string