Chapter 8: String Manipulation and List Variables
As you progress in this book, you will gain experience with more actions at each stage. Each action you learn will build upon your existing knowledge. This will all contribute to making you a more confident RPA developer.
In this chapter, we will be covering the different actions available for string manipulation. This is a common task needed when your bot is working with data. Typically, your data format and layout needs to be transformed and parsed so that it meets system requirements. When transferring data from one source to another, there may be slight differences in the required formats. String manipulation routines are needed to transform your data so that it meets the desired requirements.
In order to fully understand how to work with data, this chapter will also cover List
type variables. We use these when we need to iterate through a single string by splitting it with a specific delimiter. By the end of this chapter...