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Moving specific files from one folder to another

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This process needs to look at a files in a folders on a Windows server. I believe this requires the Power Automate Desktop..

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In Folder 1 - Examine each file name for the pattern “C” followed by 4 numerics, example (dog-C0001-20240101)

Step 2

If file name in Folder 1 matches this pattern then move the file to Folder 2

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Moving specific files from one folder to another

First use Get files in folder -action to get all files from Folder 1. You can have it retrieve only files that contain character c in them with *c*.
Then loop those files to check if they have the pattern you want. You can use Parse Text and regular expression in that.
Regular expression for the pattern C followed by 4 digits: C\d{4}
Then if no match was found don't move file but just go to the next loop. If match was found then use Move file(s) to move the currently looped file to Folder 2.

For example:
Highlighted has the correct pattern so those would be moved to folder two:

Flow:

result in folder two:

Folder 1 has only the 4 files left that did not match C + 4 digits:

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