Find Matching Patterns - position of results in text

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Hi All,

I am using Find Matching Patterns activities to retrieve specific regex values from a text.
The result of the activity is a list with all of the results.
Is there a way to retrieve not just the regex result, but also the index position of the result in the text?

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@erika027

You cannot directly retrive…

But after getting the value theough regex…you can use str.IndexOf("ExtractedString")

This way you can find the index

Cheers

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My problem is that the Extracted string could be the same multiple times.
Like regex result list: [55,83,27,55,…] and I would need both 55 position within the long text.

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Hi @erika027

Can you try the below

For Each (item in regexResultsList):
    Assign :
     index  = originalText.IndexOf(item)
    
    Log Message :
    "Regex Result: " + item.ToString() + ", Index Position: " + index.ToString()

Regards,

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Hi @erika027

=> Find Matching Patterns
Output-> Matches

=> Use For Each loop to iterate through matches

For Each CurrentMatch in Matches
      WriteLine activity -> CurrentMatch.Index
End For Each

Regards

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@erika027 - try this

Multiple Matches → Find Index of all → Perhaps Array(Int32)? - Help / Studio - UiPath Community Forum