Invoke Code syntax error

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Hi there,

I’m trying create a piece of code to do some string find/replace using InvokeCode but I’m running into a syntax error that I can’t figure out.

Dim test01 As String = “#first string# here is some text #second string# and more text”
Dim test02 As String = “#first string# here is some more text I don’t care about”
Dim items As New System.Collections.Generic.List(Of Integer)
items = test01.Select(Function(c, i) New With {.Character = c, .Index = i}) _
.Where(Function(item) item.Character = “#”) _
.ToList
Dim count As Integer = items.Count

This works in Visual Studio but I’m getting an error message that on the “items =” line: the List(Of anonymous type) can’t be converted to List(Of Integer)

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Carlo.

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Can you let me know what is the project type you have selected for writing the above code? @carlor

You need to use VB → Windows Form Application project

so that everything will work fine in UiPath as well. (except the message box and few things)

Message box in Uipath will be : System.Windows.MessageBox.Show

and in visual studio, it will be : MessageBox.Show

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Sorry, but I’m not sure what you mean. This is in a UIPath project and it is in an Invoke Code block (UIPath.Core.Activities.InvokeCode)

Thanks,

Carlo.

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I mean, what is the project type you selected for writing the above code in Visual studio?

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@carlor
It seems to me that the part … new With creating an anonymus Object is forwarded as type to the toList() statement. Does mean. Statement is returning a list of anonymous object and not a list of Int

Give a try on test01.Select(Function(c, i) New With {.Character = c, .Index = i}) _
.Where(Function(item) item.Character = “#”) _
.ToList.Count() (As you are finally interested on the count, right?)

or use a Select before toList for projecting a dedicated part of the anononymous object

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Ah. It’s a console application in VS. The code compiles in VS and runs fine. The problem is that the same code, in the UIPath “InvokeCode” has an error.

Thanks,

Carlo.

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Thanks, but I’m not interested in the count. I’m only using that as a test to see if this works. What I want to do is the string manipulation I mentioned above.

Carlo.

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Ok fine, so lets focus on this