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I'm trying pass the power automated output variable %AttributeValue% with a text of "IN998877 - A-BB-CCC-DDEERFFFFRE FR" to a run VB Script to extract the output of "IN998877", but it seems neither var %AttributeValue% is not picking the value or not knowing how to be assigned with. so please help to resolve it.

Dim inputText, startPos, endPos, extractedText

inputText = %AttributeValue%

'inputText = "IN998877 - A-BB-CCC-DDEERFFFFRE FR"

startPos = InStr(inputText, "IN")

endPos = InStr(inputText, " -") - 1

If startPos > 0 And endPos > 0 Then

    extractedText = Mid(inputText, startPos, endPos - startPos + 1)

    WScript.Echo extractedText

Else

    WScript.Echo "Text not found"

End If

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Add double quotes around the variable:

Dim inputText, startPos, endPos, extractedText

inputText = "%AttributeValue%"

'inputText = "IN998877 - A-BB-CCC-DDEERFFFFRE FR"

startPos = InStr(inputText, "IN")

endPos = InStr(inputText, " -") - 1

If startPos > 0 And endPos > 0 Then

    extractedText = Mid(inputText, startPos, endPos - startPos + 1)

    WScript.Echo extractedText

Else

    WScript.Echo "Text not found"

End If

Then output was: IN998877

Always good practice to add ScriptError output variable on Script actions:

ScriptError value:

That says the problem is at line 3

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CU13110258-0 6 on at

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thanks for the suggestion and i have tried the same mentioned above with double quotes (" ") and enabling the Script error however still i'm getting "text not found" msg and in the flow it shows "its error into Script Error" and fail after 50 seconds but not showing in variable and in display msg while testing to see the error output.

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Then your variables seems to work so its more about the value inside the variable or the extraction logic. Can you show a screenshot of the AttributeValue variable on PAD? Make sure in your VBScript only the %AttributeValue% has double quotes around it and not VBScript own inputText variables. So only add doublequotes around the %AttributeValue% in your original code you posted.

You can test that the variable assignment actually works with adding to the else echo: WScript.Echo "Text not found from " + InputText

Then you would get the variable value in the "Text not found" result:

(I intentionally changed the variable values starting I -> i to get the not found condition)

How it works with your code when I have the
inputText = "%AttributeValue%"

If the ScriptError is empty then the VBScript didn't go in to error so the condition just wasn't met.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/guidance/rpa-sap-playbook/adding-variables-to-vbscript

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