Perform Variable Substitution

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Hi
Can some one help me how to keep perform variable inside a perform variable substitution.
I need to give like this %X/Y[%iteration%]/Z% for my XML but its not working.

Thanks in advance.

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Can you elaborate more about your xml structure.(X/Y/Z)

Thanks,

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I tried a little test: A variable substitution of this form works fine:
%X[$iteration]/Y/Z%
works fine.

Since you mentioned $iteration, your map step must be within a loop. If you data structure is ‘/X/Y/Z’ and you are looping over the Y array, you can directly map this:
%X/Y/Z%
The correct Y element for that iteration - Y[$iteration] - is automatically chosen.

You cannot do something like this though:
%X[$iteration+4]/Y/Z%

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Hi Sonam,
Thanks for your help. Your soultion works just great.

Thanks
sivaram

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Hi Sonam,
Thanks for your help. Your solution works just great.

Thanks
sivaram

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You’re welcome Sivaram. Glad to help.

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Hi sonam,

             I am unable to do perform variable substitution the way you suggested. As i am getting same output what i have specified.

%X[$iteration]/Y/Z%

Please let me know where I am wrong?

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Is the Branch Evaluate Labels set to True for the substitution to work?

If not the syntax problems.

HTH,
RMG

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Make sure the branch is set to evaluate labels=true.

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I am not using Branch. Doing this process on loop

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I assume you have checked the option perform variable substitution :slight_smile:

Can you explain what is the issue you are facing. May be screen shots would be helpful to assist you further.

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How can you use step substitution on the loop with out evaluate labels to True if you are not using as regular expressions?

HTH,
RMG

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My requirements is to just concatenate first name and lastname string lists into fullname string list .I’ve specified input array as firstname and output array as full name.Here I can do with indices but I want to use perform variable substitution to map lastnames

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so can we assume this is checked in the setValue popup?

" checked the option perform variable substitution"

HTH,
RMG

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What is your input and required output? May be something like below:
First Name: Mahesh, Ani
Last Name: Kumar, XXX
Full Name: Mahesh Kumar, Ani XXX

Correct me if I am wrong?

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Yes that is my requirement. I have checked “perform variable substitution”.

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Hi,
FYI.

As per my understanding, webMethods doesn’t have the in-built capability to do the substitution at more than one level.

For example, i want to retrieve the data from a particular stringList (stringList_to_check) at particular index (index_to_retrive) without a loop and branch.

So to do this we need to set value for a pipeline variable as %stringList_to_check[%index_to_retrive%]% along with pipelineVariableSubstitution checked. So it’s a dual level substitution which won’t work using this.

So in-order to do this, there a special java service in PSUtilities package called as substituteVariables which will do this job.

– Punith

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