From the course: Complete Guide to UiPath RPA Development

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- [Bryan] As you saw from some of the previous videos, it's hard to do much with programming or RPA without dealing with variables. So in this section, let's talk about variables. I'll start out by showing you the Variables panel, which allows you to create new variables and manage them, including their scope. You'll soon see that when we're creating variables, the UiPath interface presents only a few common types of variables to choose from. There are many cases, however, when you're dealing with currency, for example, that you'll need to use a slightly less common variable type, and in that case, you need to know how to browse for uncommon variable types. Next, I'll show you how to use the Assign activity to create new variables and to change the values they hold. I'll talk about variables as the output of other activities. I'll spend some time talking about variable scope, and finally show you how to remove any unused variables to clean up your project. I'll close out the section…

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