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acesario
Contributor II
5 years ago

Is there a better way to simply convert an array to a string?

When I do a get from a given web service, I often have a single value being returned, but within an array. What happens is I end up with this type of output [“Andrew”] rather than say “Andrew” In ...
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acesario
Contributor II
5 years ago

@cjhoward18 interestingly, when i get data where the node does not exist (never for date of birth or name, but some other data elements) the .getfirst fails, even when using a hasOwnProperty. I ended up going back to my original pathing, with the following syntax.

$.hasOwnProperty(“jsonPath($, ‘$Student[0].Student_Data[0].Student_Person_Data[0].Personal_Profile_Data[0].Gender_Reference.ID.Gender_Code’)”) ? jsonPath($, ‘$Student[0].Student_Data[0].Student_Person_Data[0].Personal_Profile_Data[0].Gender_Reference.ID.Gender_Code’): ‘-’