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Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

You're reading from   Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere Techniques to fuel business productivity and intelligent automation using RPA

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781839215650
Length 554 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Husan Mahey Husan Mahey
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: About Automation Anywhere 2. Chapter 2: Installing Automation Anywhere FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Overview of Automation Anywhere Control Room 4. Chapter 4: Overview of the Automation Anywhere Development Interface 5. Chapter 5: Building Your First Bot 6. Chapter 6: Introducing Variables in A2019 7. Chapter 7: Interacting with Applications 8. Chapter 8: String Manipulation and List Variables 9. Chapter 9: Working with Conditional Logic, Loops, and the Filesystem 10. Chapter 10: Working with XML Files 11. Chapter 11: Automating Excel 12. Chapter 12: Automation Using Word 13. Chapter 13: Working with Emails 14. Chapter 14: Working with PDF Files 15. Chapter 15: Working with Databases 16. Chapter 16: Building Modular Bots and Sub-Tasks 17. Chapter 17: Running External Scripts 18. Chapter 18: Managing Errors 19. Other Books You May Enjoy

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...

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