Removing symbol from a get text activity

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Hi everyone, Im running in to a issue, when im using the get text activity to get “$12.64” I want to just take the number not the “symbol” is there any way I can omit that? And some digits do not have the symbol and some do. What is a good work around?

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hi @seanp92

Try using the OCR activities for get text, there you can scale up or down as per your preference…

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thanks I will give it a try

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Hi

I would recommend string.replace(“$”,“”).

Please try this as well if it solves your purpose

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how would i do that on a get text activity?

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@seanp92
Use it in an assign activity after the get text activity.

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Adding to his earlier point, do a simple if condition of contains for “$”, if true replace else nothing

This will be done on the output of the get text activity

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Fine
Hope these steps would help you
—Use Get text activity and get the output with a variable of type string named str_output
—now use a if condition like this
str_output.ToString.Contains(“$”)
If true it will go to THEN part where we can use a assign activity like this
str_output = str_output.ToString.Replace(“$”,””)

Now we can use that variable str_output where we want

Hope this would help you
Cheers @seanp92

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This is not needed and will add execution time to the robot. The String.Replace function already performs this check.