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Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

By : Husan Mahey
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Robotic Process Automation with Automation Anywhere

By: Husan Mahey

Overview of this book

With an increase in the number of organizations deploying RPA solutions, Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is quickly becoming the most desired skill set for both developers starting their career and seasoned professionals. This book will show you how to use Automation Anywhere A2019, one of the leading platforms used widely for RPA. Starting with an introduction to RPA and Automation Anywhere, the book will guide you through the registration, installation, and configuration of the Bot agent and Control Room. With the help of easy-to-follow instructions, you’ll build your first bot and discover how you can automate tasks with Excel, Word, emails, XML, and PDF files. You’ll learn from practical examples based on real-world business scenarios, and gain insights into building more robust and resilient bots, executing external scripts such as VBScripts and Python, and adding error handling routines. By the end of this RPA book, you’ll have developed the skills required to install and configure an RPA platform confidently and have a solid understanding of how to build complex and robust, yet performant, bots.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)

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...