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meenakshiyadav1
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5 years ago

How to remove unwanted "/" from a string

I  am using FullName property of a label object and then splitting the string to get the Full Name of Dynamic parent.  This FullName Property returning the string as :"Mobile.Device(\"iPad\").Proces...
  • Wamboo's avatar
    Wamboo
    5 years ago

    Hi, meenakshiyadav1 ,

     

    I have made you a film showing my work with the "FullName" property of a given object.

     

    The video shows that you don't need to format a sequence of characters to create an object from such a sequence of characters taken from the "FullName" property.

     

    The problem you are presenting does not concern the character "\" at all. In programming languages, such a "\" character in a string means running away from special characters (in your case it is a " character) because the whole string is enclosed in double-quotes.

     

    So the correct character to remove from the string is " and not {What you see on the video}.

     

    Summary of the film:


    1) newStr -> represents the division of the character string into an array by " which may allow you to manipulate the array after it is connected. Note that if you glue it again in the string it will again show up "\" because it's an escape sign from special characters!

     

    2) WWFUllName, ReplaceWWWFUllName, ReplaceWWFUllName2
    Here you can see that it is not possible to format this string using a character \ you can do it by " (as above)

     

    3) evalObjECT and result
    Create an object from a string of characters taken from the FullName property and then extract the property from it.

     

    Is that what you mean?

     

    In general, know that you can dynamically search for such elements using .find() by looking at the structure of objects and not only downwards but also upwards using a property such as .Parent.

     

    Let me know if this helped you.

     

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meenakshiyadav1
Contributor

tristaanogre I am finding the child object using Find All children method applied to a grand Parent object as the parent is dynamic . When I try to access the Parent property of this child objects it does not return the Parent instead it returns the grand Parent to me, maybe because I am finding the object using grandparent. 

 

Wamboo I am confused as to how to use your suggestion. Can you please give me a bit more elaborative example. I need to remove \ .

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Wamboo
Community Hero
5 years ago

Hi,

 

To help you better I need to know what do You want to do after formatting this string?

 

What will be your next step?

 

If you .split('"') and .join(' ') You will get the same result because this sign /" is again because it means "escape of the special characters in the string.

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    meenakshiyadav1
    Contributor
    5 years ago

    My Next step is using eval on that string to get the objects and perform the action on that object.

    So I need this string to be in correct form of an Alias Name e.g. "Mobile.Device("iPad").Process("iA360 StageTest").Window(0).TableView(0).TableViewCell(0, 3).

    • Wamboo's avatar
      Wamboo
      Community Hero
      5 years ago

      But, why You are working with an object like that?

       

      You can't map it into NameMapping repository?

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        meenakshiyadav1
        Contributor
        5 years ago

        No, It can not be mapped in the repository as this table view cell object had a dynamic index and it depends upon the no. of record present in the parent table objects at any point in time. I need to get the count of the objects in the table, run a loop with that count and access this table view cell objects to check a particular child object and perform an action on that child objects

        So I do not have any other option but to work with this dynamic table view cell objects to access its child objects.

         

        can you please suggest me how can I remove "/" from the above mentioned string. so that I can have Full name in correct format.  (Please refer the details above for the required correct string)