A similar question was asked and answered, but the answer is insufficient. My problem is with step #2 where First() is applied to the string array produced by Split(). First() not a legal method that applies to a string array in .NET. That will not compile in Vb.net.
First() is applicable to things such as List or a “sequence” in LINQ.
But somehow this statement works in the uiPath workflow! It will not compile in Vb.Net.
Can somebody explain if UiPath is casting this string array to a List or some other data type in the background?
Rather than VB.net, the example statement looks a lot like the fluent method syntax used in LINQ.
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I did all those things. The question remains unanswered. In Stack Overflow, I would get the Tumbleweed badge! Your course would be improved if the code portions in technical solutions were explained.
Module Program
Sub Main(args As String())
Dim str() As String =
{"First", "Second"}
Dim str2 As String
Dim first As String = str.First()
str2 = "Another string"
Console.WriteLine(first)
Console.WriteLine(str2.Split(" "c).First())
End Sub
End Module
Visual Basic.Net Compiler version 0.0.0.5943 (Mono 4.6 - tarball)
Copyright (C) 2004-2010 Rolf Bjarne Kvinge. All rights reserved.
/home/main.vb (14,35) : error VBNC30456: ‘First’ is not a member of ‘System.String’.
/home/main.vb (18,44) : error VBNC30456: ‘First’ is not a member of ‘System.String’.
There were 2 errors and 0 warnings.
As I mentioned, a String array has no “First” method.
Uipath academy has gone worst after recent updates ,the speaker just doesn’t explain what he is doing and someone like me who is a new learner has to go through multiple links to understand a single step.
even by now I haven’t understood why he used “First” in this activity message.Split("."c).First.ToString.Substring(message.LastIndexOf(“author”))
Yeah, many loose ends. I think they follow the “if it doesn’t kill you it makes you stronger” approach. It does encourage lots of searching and document finding. This section says it takes 6 hours but I did all the practices on my own without looking at the solutions and it took me more like 6 days. Slowing down the video playback speed can be helpful sometimes.
