Detect space between Hyphen

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Hi,

I’m trying to identify string if it contains space between word and hyphen.

ex.: “Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay.” this is incorrect.

“Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay.” this is correct.

Please help me with this…

Thanks in advance…

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@Abhishek_Changan
The simple approach is using replace
YourStringVar.replace(" - “,”-")

For more variations a regex replace is suggested

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But I don’t want it to be replaced, just detection is required…

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Then Go for regex ismatch Activity or regex Match Activity and Count the occurence to detect If the Case ist präsent or not

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Can you please elaborate how to use this in UiPath…

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Yes give me some little time, Otherwise go to regex101.com and Play with this pattern ( - ). Once you have found a working pattern use the isregex Activity with found pattern and you will get a boolean result If IT was found or not

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Hi @Abhishek_Changan,

Use following regex
Regex.isMatch(yourString,“(?<=-)(\s{1})|(?=-)(\s{1})” )

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Hey @SamanGuruge,

Good regex…

It checks for space after the hyphen, i.e. “Hello- Hello”.

Can you modify it to check for sides, i.e. “Hello -Hello”

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so sorry I was created for both way but I did some mistake in the patten after OR i’m checking the leading space now it’s ok

Regex.isMatch(yourString,“(?<=-)(\s{1})|(\s{1})(?=-)” )

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@Abhishek_Changan
have a look here, handling also some variations
grafik

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Hi
To validate whether it has space along the sides of “-”
we can do it with simple assign activity

like this

bool_exists = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.IsMatch(“your input string”,“( - )”)

where bool_exits is a boolean variable which will give True OR False based on the presence of space along side.

Cheers @Abhishek_Changan

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@Abhishek_Changan Use below regex System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.IsMatch(variable1,“[a-zA-z\s]+[-][a-zA-Z]+.*”)

Sequence1 - Copy.xaml (4.7 KB)

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Thanks for this, helped me to get the answer I expected…

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Hi @ppr,

Thanks for this link, learned a lot…

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