How to manipulate a part of string: Split, Trim, Substring, Replace, Remove, Left, Right

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Use :.Trim to replace white spaces from values. This seems to be the cause.

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Thanks Adrian for your help, is there any proposal solution? I try to remove the duplicate first before the split but it don’t work as well.

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Send the workflow and a file with sample data (they can be pseudo data)
I will take a look at what you have prepared and refer to it.

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How to remove duplicate.zip (16.0 KB)
Hi Adrian,
Attach is the file and thanks you so much for your help in advance.

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Check my work:
Remove_dupliate_values_in_array_of_string.zip (17,3 KB)

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Hi Adrian,
Your solution is very cools and I didn’t know it can be done this way. Something new to learn and thanks you so much for your solution and it work great!

Once again thank you so much.

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Very informative. Thanks a lot.

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Thanks you for this. This was really helpful!

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Hi good morning.

I am creating a bot that captures a text of type Int from the screen and this captured text always changes length, going up to 5 characters or more. I need regardless of the fetched text to save the text from the first digit to the penultimate.

Can you help me please, thank you.

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Hi @Melanny_Herrera_Cruz ,

You can use a regular expression:

output = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Match(inputString,"\b\d+(?=\d)").Value

output = String
inputString = String

Output as shown on screen:
image

Example link to visualize:

Pattern explanation:
start with the word boundary ( \b ),
get numbers that are more than 1 ( \d+ ),
end on a one-digit pattern without taking a character ( (?=\d) ).

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How to split the string if my string is of the format

Mat
cat
rat
fat

and I want one word at a time?

Can anyone help?

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Hi,
solution to your problem:

arr_text As Array of Strings

arr_text = Split(your_text, Environment.NewLine)

Usage details in the first post:

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Hi Adrian,

The above mentioned isnt giving me the result.
Can you show with a example

I am trying this

Split(Collection, Environment.NewLine)

where “Collection” is a string type variable

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This worked for me - text.Split(Environment.NewLine.ToArray,StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)

Thanbk you

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@Adrian_Star,
I cannot thank you enough your article has been very useful in making me understand string manipulation.

I have written a regex that seems to be working but I get this error:
Self referencing loop detected with type ‘System.Text.RegularExpressions.Match’. Path ‘Groups’.
Could you be having an idea on how to resolve it please.

Thank you.

Best Regards,
Kakooza Allan Klaus

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Hi @Kakooza-Allan-Klaus ,
Please include your regex pattern here along with a description of what you want to extract. Also include sample text with data. Then I will be able to check the pattern and give you the answer.

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Hi @Adrian_Star,

As requested.

C:\\\w*\s*\w*\\\w*.xlsx

C:\folder Name\6639a06d28484664ac15dfedf95a0e37.xlsx

Best Regards,
Kakooza Allan Klaus

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sample = "C:\folder Name\6639a06d28484664ac15dfedf95a0e37.xlsx"
pattern = "C:\\[\w\s]+\\\w+.xlsx"
regex_result = System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Match(sample, pattern).Value

Do you have a logical expression like mine in the regex_result variable?

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Yes,
But the are patterns are different
I want to know what could have been wrong with mine.

Yours is very stable

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The difference is slight.
In my formula, I just optimized regex pattern by fitting a result with a range of \w and \s characters.
What does it mean. I grouped the characters \w and \s in to [] bracket and assigned them: + - that is, to match each type of word characters and whitespace in any number starting from 1.

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