Hi
I have used Regex to get part of a filename but I can’t convert to a string variable, can anyone help please.
Thanks
Raychel
If you are using match then use .value to get the output
If using matches …then you can use index to get each output(0).value
Or use a for loop and sent the output as in argument for for loop and change type argument to match
And then inside loop use currentitem.value
Hope thsi helps
Cheers
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Thanks for your reply Anil 
I have used Matches, please can you show me what the assign would look like.
Thanks
Raychel
Hi @raychel.hall ,
If it’s a Single Value match that you would require, then you can use the Match Method instead of the Matches Activity or Matches method.
System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Match(yourInputVar,"Your Regex").Value.ToString
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You can replace the Matches activity with the Assign activity and modify the expression as shown below:
yourOutputVar = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Match(YourString, "YourRegex").ToString();
Can you share the sample input and output?
Regards
Gokul
Say output is stored in output variable
Then use for loop and give output and change type argument to match
Now inside use assign with
Requiredword = currentitem.value
For every iteration new value will be assigned to requiredword variable which is of string type
If you mnow how many words and need a specific word for suppose need second word use output(1).Value index starts from 0 so for second value index is 1
Hope this helps
To know how many matches are found use output.count
If you want to see all words at once then
String.Join(",",output.Cast(Of Regex.Match).Select(function(x) x.Value))
Cheers
In that case we would need to know how are these words connected. Do we need to append all the matched values/words together into a Single variable or does each matched word need to be assigned to different variables ?
Hi
My input is C:\Users\*******\OneDrive - **** plc\UI Path processes\Key Words Process - One Excel\Input Files\SCC 2030 Net Zero Carbon Programme 002
I need to get the words after the last \ in one variable.
Thanks
Raychel
If you need that then use like this it would give all the words
Str.Split({"\"},StringSplitOptions.None).Last
Edit: thanks @Gokul001
Cheers
Try with Split expression
Split("C:\Users\*******\OneDrive - **** plc\UI Path processes\Key Words Process - One Excel\Input Files\SCC 2030 Net Zero Carbon Programme 002","\").Last
Regards
Gokul
Little modification in the syntax
Str.Split({"\"},StringSplitOptions.None).Last
Regards
Gokul
We also see that it is a Path, and for such file paths, we could use the below Expression as well :
Path.GetFileName("C:\Users\*******\OneDrive - **** plc\UI Path processes\Key Words Process - One Excel\Input Files\SCC 2030 Net Zero Carbon Programme 002")
We don’t see the extension mentioned, but we could also remove the Extension with the GetFileNameWithoutExtension() method if at all the extension is to be removed.