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Hello there I have a infopath form with Sharepoint workflow attached to it. I want to be able to send an email to a certain person based on what the "users" last name starts with.

So for example:

Person 1 last name starts with A,B,Y that email is sent to [email protected] Person 2 last name starts with M through Z email is sent to [email protected]

I know that I can do "If CurrentItem:LastName begins with value" but I do not know how to set up the value part.

Thanks!

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You will want to set up a compound condition like this:

If CurrentItem:LastName begins with 'A' or CurrentItem:LastName begins with 'B' or CurrentItem:LastName begins with 'Y' then

See this article for an example of how to set that up. Here are some samples from that article:
Example
This can also be reduced to:
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You can also do this as a regular expression for finding one that starts with M-Z. Use the regex variable: ^([M-Z]|[m-z]) which means match any string that starts with any letter m-z upper or lower case. enter image description here

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Ok Great I think that works. But now What about if I want to do a range IE M-Z – trikread May 8 at 16:41
That is where you will want to use regular expressions. See the bottom for the article for an example – Ryan Erickson May 8 at 16:44
I updated the answer with a regex example. Don't forget to mark the answer as accepted if it solved your problem using the check button. – Ryan Erickson May 8 at 16:50
Sorry I guess I do not understand. Where do I add the regEx in the WF? – trikread May 8 at 16:53
Store your regex in a new variable then use the "matches regular expression" operator – Ryan Erickson May 8 at 16:56
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