Last and First expression in Cloud Flows – Part I

Let’s see how we can use last and first expression in Cloud Flows.

Below is the use case for using the First and Last Expression in the Cloud Flows:

1. To get First & Last item in array variable

2. To get First & Last char of string variable

3. To get First and Last records from the list of records

Let us get started!!!!!

1. Let say you have string named “A Datum Integration” and You want to extract the first character from the string, then use below expression.

Syntax – first(<string>)

I have initialized a string “A Datum Integration”.

Add added a  compose action and used first expression as below.

As a result, will get a first character from the string i.e A

Output –

2. Similarly, we can use last expression to get last character from the string. In this case character “n” should be output

Syntax – last(<string>)

Output –

Stay tuned for Part II.