# Expression binding in Alarm binding

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**Created:** [June 10, 2025, 7:28am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/expression-binding-in-alarm-binding/107213 "2025-06-10T07:28:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![surajpatil26796](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@surajpatil26796](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/surajpatil26796)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 7:28am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/expression-binding-in-alarm-binding/107213/1 "2025-06-10T07:28:30Z")

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Hello Expert,  
I am writing an expression for alarm binding.  
My expression is as below:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/9/9/99ac8d029b8cfeccde32af27e194b1ba391ba295.png)

This expression returns a dataset with [5R, 1C]

I wanted to extract the value of 1st row and wanted to display it into the one of the associated data property as shown below:

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/f/e/fe57561766b526cb1db15b94a1d2f6f1de08fef1.png)

But i am not able to extract the required data. How i can achieve this?

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**Author:** ![pascal.fragnoud](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pascal.fragnoud/32/24728_2.png) [@pascal.fragnoud](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pascal.fragnoud)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 7:38am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/expression-binding-in-alarm-binding/107213/2 "2025-06-10T07:38:28Z")

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This should be enough to extract the first part of the path:

```python
split({fullItemPath}, '/')[0]

```

If it doesn't work, you'll have to show us what goes wrong.

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**Author:** ![surajpatil26796](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@surajpatil26796](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/surajpatil26796)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 8:15am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/expression-binding-in-alarm-binding/107213/3 "2025-06-10T08:15:00Z")

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**fullItemPath** : NewProvider\_SJP/Legrand\_India/Jalgaon/Mould\_Shop/Arburg 2/Phase1\_Voltage

With expression: split({fullItemPath}, "/")[0]  
output: NewProvider\_SJP

With expression: split({fullItemPath}, "/")[1]  
output(Blank):

I also wanted to extract other strings.

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**Author:** ![pascal.fragnoud](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pascal.fragnoud/32/24728_2.png) [@pascal.fragnoud](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pascal.fragnoud)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2025, 9:00am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/expression-binding-in-alarm-binding/107213/4 "2025-06-10T09:00:35Z")

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You need both row and column. If you put only one, the row defaults to 0.

```python
split({fullItemPath}, "/")[1, 0]

```

> \> `Legrand_India`