Error message get row item

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Hi Guys,

i Keep getting an error message which is driving me crazy. Please find attached the screenshot of my workflow. I would like to extrat certain data from an excel file via the get row item. I am using the get row item because i need to get information from the 6th collum. Everything seems to be working fine. However, when i run the process i get the following error. It does however work correctly when i try using a message box i get the correct value shown to me. Can someone pls assisst?prtscreen%202

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Can you attach workflow? Have you passed column index or name

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Hi Prankurjoshi.

Please see attached.

Thanks for the help.

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Hi,

I found the error (some values in the excel file have less digits than others. Do you have any idea how i fix this with an IF function (some contain 12 digits and other 14)?

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Hi @Matthewvz

Seems like you could use some regex to solve the issue.
Could you give a sample mockup of your string from the aanslagnummer variable?

In case it is followed by a space, you could assign BSN this value:
System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Match(aanslagnummer,“\d{12,14}”).ToString

Here is how it works: regex101: build, test, and debug regex
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Hi Thank you for your reply,

I have an additional question. When i try to use the get row item and the assign function i get the error when the information in the table in excel stops (most likely because is selected the 6th collum index and it trys to assign something to a a cell with no value. How do i fix this?

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Your Assign activity is throwing an error: Index was out of range. If you see here, you will find out that it is the issue with the .SubString method:
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The regex solution will work better, because it will simply find your value or return empty string (without an error).

The Get Row activity is working as it should - it returns your value from 6th column of the table (and can return an empty string if there is no value in that row).

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Thank you for your reply!!

Could you please provide me with a sample of the regex (as i am new to UIPATH). the total aanslagnummer looks something like this 215370261H3601. With the BSN i just want to extract the first 9 digits. How do i do this with regex?

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Try this in an Assign activity:
BSN = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Match(aanslagnummer,"^\d{9}").ToString
and see how the expression works here: regex101: build, test, and debug regex

It will extract 9 digits starting at the beginning of your string

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Thank you so much ! the bsn is working now. Just for my understanding, how would the code look if i wanted the last 4 digits? (digits 10 till 14)?

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This should cover it:
\w{5}$

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System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Match(aanslagnummer,“^\w(5)$”).ToString

So like this? because it isnt working

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No no, without ^ at the beginning
^ means start of line
$ means end of line

^\d+ matches digits from the beginning
\w+$ matches word characters from the end

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@loginerror Hi, I am trying to do something similar with regex however its not working

My code is this
System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Match(row, “(?<=S—CLOAD NO)\w+”).ToString

This is a small extract of my text
S—CLOAD NO A12345-AAB ARGRG
S—CLOAD NO A127921-SM001 RWGRW
S—CLOAD NO A133—AAB NOFAFNER

I need to extract the 'a12345" part from the strings.
But my code isn’t working. Any idea why?

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@sangasangasanga

You got it right but are missing a space after “NO”.
Your regex:
(?<=S—CLOAD NO)\w+
Corrected:
(?<=S—CLOAD NO )\w+

This should catch what you need. See here for reference :slight_smile:

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