Any Winautomation experts around? Need URGENT help

I'll post here same thing I posted on their forum:

Okay, I'm new to the software and about at my wit's end trying to figure out how to do this.


I have thousands of names and they come in pairs. I need to verify their address and phone number from a white pages site. The only way to be sure is by checking that the primary name of each set is on the same page as the secondary name of the set which therefore indicates the two people are related, in most cases married.


However, some times their first name on the white pages site is a truncated version (Johnathon to Jon) from what I have or their middle initial is either there or not and thus making it impossible to know what the entire string is.


I considered using OCR but it's a very long page from top to bottom and it all doesn't fit on the same page. I had simply planned to put ranges and wildcards inside variables and check for the presence of any text in between the names but nothing I'm trying is working so far.


Can I put regex inside a variable and check the page for a presence of that? I've tried but nothings working and I'm just wondering do I have the syntax wrong or what... I don't know, it's getting very frustrating.


I love the software so far but if there's no more sophistication to this particular conditional check I will be highly disappointed.

Yes regex works inside winautomation. You can check their forum for examples. Im on a phone right now so cant give you symtax from here.

Oh and FYI.....

the way I can successfully know that I'm on the correct page of the white pages site which therefore indicates I have the correct contact info of the pair of people in my database is that their names are both on the same URL so a simple if Web Page Contains: action followed by both names is there, BAM, piece of cake, I Regex the data I need and I'm out and onto the next pair of names. Only problem is I can't figure out how to check for variations of the names because Winautomations standard check simply looks for a string and if I can input range variables I haven't figure it out yet because I'm new to the software and don't know the syntax or something.

It's getting annoying.

seochris96 said:

Oh and FYI.....

the way I can successfully know that I'm on the correct page of the white pages site which therefore indicates I have the correct contact info of the pair of people in my database is that their names are both on the same URL so a simple if Web Page Contains: action followed by both names is there, BAM, piece of cake, I Regex the data I need and I'm out and onto the next pair of names. Only problem is I can't figure out how to check for variations of the names because Winautomations standard check simply looks for a string and if I can input range variables I haven't figure it out yet because I'm new to the software and don't know the syntax or something.

It's getting annoying.

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You have to use regex match and if statement

But what action do I call in order to find a regex match?