String Manipulation Oddity

[ColinJD]

This might be by design, but I suspect not.
When processing a string manipulation
If after string is in effect also included in the before string, the manipulation will fail. This can be corrected by incrementing the occurence level, but it appears odd to say the least.

[forumsupport]

Hello Colin,

By design the system searches for the before or after string from the beginning of Source String. Hence, if ‘after string’ exists in ‘before string’ then String Manipulation command would return null.

We have amended your sample task. Please copy it under location, 'C:\...\My Documents\Automation Anywhere\Automation Anywhere\My Tasks' folder.

To get around this issue, you need to change the occurrence of ‘after string’ to its next occurrence. For e.g. if before occurrence is 1 then after occurrence would be 2 in this case.

Hope that helps.

[ColinJD]

Ok Thanks,
It might be possible to reorganise the String Manipulation Wizard/Dialog to warn when such a situation that returns a null value is likely. As this simple error can turn into a big time waster for users such as myself.

[forumsupport]

Hello Colin,

Sure. It is with customers like you that we update and improve our existing features to fulfill our customer's requirements.

Thank you.

[ColinJD]

Thanks,
AA is a good product but as always, there are possible improvements.