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Learning Robotic Process Automation

By : Alok Mani Tripathi
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Learning Robotic Process Automation

By: Alok Mani Tripathi

Overview of this book

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) enables automating business processes using software robots. Software robots interpret, trigger responses, and communicate with other systems just like humans do. Robotic processes and intelligent automation tools can help businesses improve the effectiveness of services faster and at a lower cost than current methods. This book is the perfect start to your automation journey, with a special focus on one of the most popular RPA tools: UiPath. Learning Robotic Process Automation takes you on a journey from understanding the basics of RPA to advanced implementation techniques. You will become familiar with the UiPath interface and learn about its workflow. Once you are familiar with the environment, we will get hands-on with automating applications such as Excel, SAP, Windows and web applications, screen and web scraping, working with user events, and we'll cover exceptions and debugging. By the end of the book, you'll not only be able to build your first software robot, but you'll also wire it up to perform various automation tasks with the help of best practices for robot deployment.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Collections

There are different types of variables. Variables can be classified into three categories:

  • Scalar: These are variables that can only hold a single data point of a particular data type, for example; Character, Integer, Double, and so on.
  • Collections: These are variables that can hold one or more data point of a particular data type. For example; array, list, dictionary, and so on.
  • Tables: These are a tabular form of the data structure which consists of rows and columns.

In this section, we are going to see how collections work and how we can store values in the collection variables.

In a collection, we can store one or more data points, but all the data must be the same. Consider an example. An array is a collection in which we can store different values of a particular data type. It is a fixed data type, meaning if we store five values inside the array, we cannot...