string functions in the 'assign' widget in workflows

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March 03, 2012 06:34

I need to do some string manupulations in workflow.  In need to split a website message delimited by :  I need to pick the 2nd member of a 5 member array (if its split that is).. is there a place where the string functions that would work in workflow are listed?

 

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  Permanently deleted user

  March 03, 2012 06:56

  Hi Jeff,

      The server uses VB.Net and therefore any .Net classes are available as long as the proper Import is satisfied.

      You can find the list of string methods available in .Net here:

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.string_methods.aspx

      Each one will give a VB example.

  Cheers,

  Chris.

   

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  Permanently deleted user

  March 03, 2012 07:36

  Sorry for being such a newbee but I still am getting an error:  I am just leaning how to use .net in the workflow.

  string1 is a type string and is a long message returned in json.

  string1array defined as type string[]

  I need to split it into parts and discover the second member of the array.

  string1array = string1.Split(':') give me an expression expected.  could you possibly write out a example or two for me??

  I would be so grateful.

   

  JEff

   

   

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  Permanently deleted user

  March 03, 2012 07:58

  Hi Jeff,

       You should be able to use: 

  variable1.Split(":".ToCharArray())(1)

     where variable1 is the variable containing your json string. And I'm accessing the second element using (1) since the results of Split start at zero.

  Cheers,

  Chris.

  P.S. I've included a small workflow that demonstrates this.

  http://data.latitudegeo.com/support/GSC/splitworkflow.zip (edit: link updated)

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  Permanently deleted user

  February 07, 2014 18:10

  Link don't work

   

  Would very much like to see your Example

   

  Regards

   

  David

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  Permanently deleted user

  February 26, 2014 08:47

  Hi David,

  I updated the link above to download a zip file instead of a xaml file, which can be blocked by some browsers. You should be able to download it now.

  -Victoria

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  Permanently deleted user

  October 08, 2015 02:30

  The link above doesn't work.

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  Permanently deleted user

  October 13, 2015 23:34

  You can download the workflow now from here: http://data.latitudegeo.com/support/GSC/splitworkflow.zip

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  Sean McClurkan

  September 22, 2016 13:57

  Thanks, Victoria.  I was not finding this syntax anywhere online, but your example works very well!

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  Zack Robison

  November 17, 2016 22:56

  I prefer System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Split(source_string_var, split_string_var)(n)

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