Definition and Usage

The Append prefix or suffix command is used to add text to the beginning and end of an existing string. Common use cases include:

Adding file extensions
Inserting name prefixes/suffixes
Including special start/end characters
Formatting strings for applications

Parameter Values

Set parameters

Parameter	Description
Original text	Enter the original text or select a text variable
Operation	Specific how you'd like to append the text Append Prefix: add text to the beginning of a string Append Suffix: add text to the end of a string
Text to append	Enter the text to add to the original text
Save text as	Save the appended text as a new variable

Error handling

Parameter	Definition
When error occurs	Select the action to be performed when an error occurs Terminate the project Ignore the error and execute the next command Retry action

Example

In a web scraping workflow, you may need to alter a URL by add a suffix. The above workflow command will go to the official website of Octoparse, get the URL as webPage, which is https://www.octoparse.com and then use the Append prefix or suffix to add text string "blog" to the bottom of the URL, the final result will be https://www.octoparse.com/blog.