Power Automate: Removing Alpha Characters From a Text String
I integrated two third party vendor systems using Power Automate. A flow GETs data from one API and inserts these as new employee details via another API. These new employees' first act upon securing their position is usually to try to sabotage my integration by inserting strange characters into phone numbers, National Insurance numbers and all manner of other places that cause my POST action to be rejected. Sometimes I can't even find these weird glyphs on my keyboard and have to ctrl-c and ctrl-v them into my removal list.
If you've had the same problem, you'll know there isn't a function for bulk cleansing or replacing of characters in Power Automate. This is how I did it.
I've been a while writing this article because I wanted to be able to show a resolution to my problems. It's about what I've learned so far after buying an Elegoo Mars 3 resin printer and then trying to fit a magnetic build plate.
It seems I was completely wrong about what the Home and Set Z zero buttons do on my printer. I then had some major problems with warping and aquaplaning. Here are my adventures.
Painting My Mandalorian Helmets
I seem to have neglected my website for a whole year, although I was putting some stuff up on my Instagram page while I was experimenting. That's good news for you, the reader, because all I want to do just now is summarise the findings of my tests and get them published instead of writing screeds and screeds of stuff about methodology and theory. I'd imagine that suits everyone involved.