How to remove the blank value from get attribute

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I am using find children activity where I want to iterate through the H4 tag and get the value from it. While iterate through for each using get attribute I am getting blank data also. So is there any vb.net expression or way where I can declare if the value is blank then ignore the other should be written in excel.

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You can check it in the UiPath itself like

if the variable or the expression value is string.Empty or “”, then skip else write @Saahil08

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Hey @Saahil08

Use an If activity.
Then the condition would be:
String.IsNullOrEmpty(yourStringVarHere)
It will return a Boolean

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@Saahil08
With A LINQ Statement it is easy to filter out the empty ones from the List returned from find children.
Lets assume text is in the text attribute:
Assign Activity:
Value: YourFindChildrenOutputVar.Where(Function (uie) not String.IsNullOrEmpty(uie.Get(“text”).ToString)).ToList
To: Variable of e.g. List(Of uielement)

Kindly Note: With this approach you dont need for each activity

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Hi, I am unable to understand your code it looks little complicated. And I am using for each activity where I am iterating through a find children output and trying to get the content from a page using get attribute.

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Hi jan, can you please simplify here with variable name as i am not getting what the actual condition to supply.

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@Saahil08
Can you post a screenshot from your for each, would be helpfully for further guidance.

In for each yout can retrive the value from H4 via:

  • get attribute acitvity (text property)
  • or via Assign Activity uielementVarFromIteration.Get(“text”).toString

so you can check if H4 is blank by eg

  • String.IsNullOrEmpty(uie.Get(“text”).ToString)
    or String.IsNullOrEmpty(YourH4TextVariable)

My statement from above is filtering for all non blank items in a oneliner and doesn’t need a foreach. Later you can process the filtered list in a foreach again and eg get content from a page

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You can check this documentation:

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