How to compare an array item with a variable?

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I am working on webscraping where I want to compare 2 values:

1. Values extracted from web as a list

2. Values extracted as a single variable-around 5 individual variables

I want to run a comparison of each value of the list with these 5 variables

My approach-

Using a for each loop and fetching each item in array using a counter,countervariable.-currentitem[countervariable]

The problem is as soon as the countervariable is 1 it throws an error-'Index 1 is out of range'

I want to use- if currentitem[countervariable]='web attribute value extracted as a single variable'

How can I go about it?

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Agnius Bartninkas Most Valuable Professional on at

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If you are using a For each loop, you do not need a counter/index variable. Your %CurrentItem% will store the value of the current iteration of your loop. So you can simply do If %CurrentItem% = %AttributeValue% (from the web).

The index/counter is only relevant when you are using a different kind of loop. You would then target the list itself with the counter, instead of %CurrentItem% - e.g. %List[CounterVariable]%.

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Hi @luckyra

Another way you can give a try 🙂

see below

Assume list variable is the list which you got as output from webpage in form of list. a and b are the variables which have been extracted as single values.

Now loop through single value variables by enclosing in list like as i did below:

Now using if condition, check whether the currentitem is present in list or not like below:

if it is present, as per my flow, it will display a message box, may be as per your requirement you can change that if you need so.

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