Add a space when bracket is availabe in a text

[Anwar_Mirza]

Hello friends,

I am running a project to extract specific text from a long string, it is working fine but I am facing a problem with few instances which contains brackets “( )” and there is no space between the previous word(s) and the openning bracket. For example,

Driver(Heavy Vehicle)
Team Leader(IT)

I need to insert a space before the openning bracket, to result the following:

Driver (Heavy Vehicle)
Team Leader (IT)

Not sure of Regex can help, or Concatinate function, need your help please.

Thanks

[Anil_G (Anil Gorthi)]

@Anwar_Mirza

You can use a replace

Str.Replace("("," (")

This should do it

Cheers

[mkankatala (Mahesh Kankatala)]

Hi @Anwar_Mirza

You can do String Manipulations for this,

- Assign -> Input = "Driver(Heavy Vehicle)"
- Assign -> Output = Input.Replace("("," (")

Check the below workflow for better understanding,

Hope it helps!!

[ppr (Peter Preuss)]

A defensive Approach inserting only when Space is missing

[CheatSheet] - System.Text.RegularExpressions | RegEx - News / Tutorials - UiPath Community Forum

[smarthari1997 (Hp)]

Hi Anwar
you can try this approach
Text = “Driver(Heavy Vehicle) Team Leader(IT)”
Regex= System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(Text, “(\S)(”, “$1 (”)

Regards
Hari

[Anwar_Mirza]

@Anil_G

.Replace(“(”," (")

Thanks Anil, I tried it but this will also add a space for those instances which already have a space, I am gonna have double space. Is there a way to check if a space is already available befoe implementing the replace function?

[Anil_G (Anil Gorthi)]

@Anwar_Mirza

Then use this regex replace

System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(str," *\("," (")

Cheers

[Anwar_Mirza]

Thank you for your time, your solution is similar to Anil above, plz see my response to him. This solution will add unnecessary space to the cases where there is a space already. Can we check if there is a space availabe first befre taking the action?

[Anwar_Mirza]

@Anil_G

System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(str," *\("," (")

This is great Anil, IT WORKED

[Anwar_Mirza]

Thans for your efforts dear, appreiated.

[Anil_G (Anil Gorthi)]

@Anwar_Mirza

Glad it helped

Happy Automation

Cheers