Leg 1 of 2 | Singapore (SIN) to Dubai (DXB) | Operated by Emirates (equipment owner - Emirates) what is the expression i need to express if i want to extract Singapore (SIN) in the pdf file using uipath assign? an expressison to get rid of text beside it

[HongRui_Zhang]

this is the imagine from the pdf but how to extact Singapore (SIN) and Dubai (DXB)

[rlgandu]

@HongRui_Zhang

Use read pdf text or Read pdf with ocr if the pdf is scanned
Use regex or string manipulations to get the data you want

[lrtetala (Lakshman Reddy)]

Hi @HongRui_Zhang

Welcome to Community!!

1.Use Read Pdf activity
2.By using Regex you can extract that fields

I hope it helps!!

[lrtetala (Lakshman Reddy)]

@HongRui_Zhang

Can you provide that pdf file then we can extract that fields.

[Brian_Mathew_Maben]

Hey @HongRui_Zhang !! Can you please share the pdf so that we can work on a solution.

[lrtetala (Lakshman Reddy)]

Hi @HongRui_Zhang

Singapore

(?<=Leg 1 of 2\s*\|\s+).*(?=\s+to\s*[A-Z]+)

Dubai

(?<=Leg 1 of 2.*\s*\|\s+.*\s+to\s+).*(?=\s+\|)

I hope it helps!!

[Brian_Mathew_Maben]

Hey @HongRui_Zhang

You can try this regex expression
(\w+(?: (\w+))?)\s+to\s+(\w+(?: (\w+))?)\s+(?=|)

In order to extract the SINGAPORE (SIN) and DUBAI (DXB), we can make use of the following assign statements

assign origin = text.Split({“to”},StringSplitOptions.None)(0)
assign destination = text.Split({“to”},StringSplitOptions.None)(1)

Output

[Ashutosh.Gupta]

Hi @HongRui_Zhang ,

You can use the split function to get this done. First, split the str by ‘|’ and then by ’ to '.
Please follow the below steps-

• Assign the above text to str variable.

str= "Leg 1 of 2 | Singapore (SIN) to Dubai (DXB) | Operated by Emirates (equipment owner - Emirates)"

• Apply split function “|” as written below to get “Singapore (SIN)”

Split(Str.Split("|"c)(1)," to ")(0)

• Apply split function as written below to get “Dubai (DXB)”

Split(Str.Split("|"c)(1)," to ")(1)

Now this solution will also work in case the destinations’ names are changing.

Below is the screenshot for your reference.

Regards,
Ashutosh Gupta