I am stuck with another doubt, can you help?
How can I separate address, telephone number, email id, website into different cells?
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You’ll have to use read cell (or a read range) activity to get the information to the robot. If you used read cell, this will be a string. If you used read range, it will be a datatable (which you will have to convert into string).
Assuming you went with read range, you can turn it into a string with the following: YourDatatable.Rows(rowindex).item(columnindex).ToString - assuming there is only 1 column and 1 row this would look like this: YourDatatable.Rows(0).item(0).Tostring
So now you have your string, but it has all the info in a single string and you want to have it separated out. To do this, you need to use some form of string manipulation. You can use strings.split() method, strings.substring() method, or a regular expression (regex) to pull out the specific info. It is up to personal preference and the input structure as to which one of the methods is best. I personally would go with split string method here if it stays consistent in strucutre like you show in your picture.
Strings.Split method will allow you to split the string on the environment.newline character with the following expression: String.split(YourText,environment.newline,StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)
This gives you an array of strings which should be the following where the # shows the index:
0: Address
1: 152-160 City RoadKemp HouseLondonEC1V 2NX
2: Telephone
3: 020 3602 4275
4: Email
5: info@aznos.co.uk
6: Website
7: www.aznos.co.uk
So for example to access the string containing the actual telephone number, you would use YourSplitStringVariable(3)
If you want to put it back into excel, you first need to put it into a datatable. To do this I would use the build datatable activity. Name the columns how you’d like and delete all the rows. I’ll call this new datatable dt1 from here on out.
Now use an ‘add data row’ activity. The properties should be as follows
ArrayRow: {YourSplitStringVariable(1),YourSplitStringVariable(3),YourSplitStringVariable(5),YourSplitStringVariable(7)}
DataRow: leave this blank
DataTable: dt1
Now use a write range activity to write dt1 into the excel file at the sheet and range you specify. Whatever range you put in is going to be the top-left of the datatable
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use a Read cell activity and store this to a variable after that use the following Regular Expressions to get the required data
Address
Telephone
Email
Website
if this solves your query then mark this as solution.
Happy Automation!
Regards,
Aditya
what are we storing in YourText?
YourText is a string variable of the entire original text. This is what you save the output to if using ReadCell activity, or what you put in the assign for YourText = YourDatatable.Rows(0).item(0).ToString
You can change the variable to be named anything you’d like. I just named them those thigns to make it more clear to you (e.g. YourText is the entire text you are trying to manipulate, YourDatatable is the datatable you extracted using read range, etc)
Implement the above expression in uipath studio. This might work there give it a try.
Regards,
Aditya
Change it to be Strings.Split instead of String.Split
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