Move all files which contain input string as text

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Dear forum members,

My problem is that i have many files like pdf,excel,text in a folder and i need to search a input text inside all files and which files contain that text that would be moved to another folder.
Which activities should be used.

Thankx in advance

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first get all files from a folder.
for each file- get extension
based on extension- read text, excel, pdf acoordingly.
for text-you can use stringvariable.contains(“input”). read pdf and convert to text follow same as above. for excel use output datatable and try same

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if the conditions are met you can move those specifc files to desired folder using-Move File activity

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@Yankit_singh You want all the text files from the provided path or you want only the ‘input’ text file. Kindly confirm to solve your problem. Thanks.

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i only want to move those file which has input text.

Thankx

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@Yankit_singh Did u tried my flow?

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yes i have tried, but i am not getting how to read file based on extension means how to get extension.

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System.IO.Path.GetExtension(String) pass the file name here. Or using string manupulations u can get extension.

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