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mikej411's avatar
mikej411
Occasional Contributor
10 years ago

How to represent End Line in a String for TestComplete using Javascript

I need to verify a warning message in TestComplete that has multiple lines for it's innerText property. The innerText looks like this:   First Line Second Line To do that, I thought using \n wou...
  • mikej411's avatar
    mikej411
    10 years ago

    So I found 2 solutions:

    1. I used contentText property as suggested above. This passes only when I include one "\n". My warning label has 3 line-breaks when visually verifying, so this method doesnt accurately verify the message. See below:

     

     if(warningMessage.contentText== "First Line\nSecond Line")
    Log.Checkpoint("Pass");
  else
    Log.Error("Fail");

     

    2. The next solution is using the innerText property, but instead of "\n", I have to use "\r\n". I'm not sure why this works, as it was just a suggestion in another forum

     

     if(warningMessage.innerText== "First Line\r\n\r\n\r\nSecond Line")
    Log.Checkpoint("Pass");
  else
    Log.Error("Fail");
NisHera's avatar
NisHera
Valued Contributor
10 years ago

what is the value of  

warningMessage.innerText

 ............?

most probably TC may be reading it as a single line of string (is it?)

if so it's easy as 

warningMessage.innerText == " entire text Line"

if you need to read part of text, can do with aqString.Find

 https://support.smartbear.com/viewarticle/71913/

  • mikej411's avatar
    mikej411
    Occasional Contributor
    10 years ago

    The value of innerText is exactly what I pasted in the original post. When I paste it in notepad, It shows text on the first line, then it has a couple end lines and shows the next set of text. Could that be an Array inside innerText? I never saw that before.

     

    Anyway, the warning message label in question is a web element with the following attribute: 

    <SPAN id=warningMessageLabelID>First Line<BR><BR> <CENTER>Second Line</CENTER></SPAN>

     

    If I cant find a solution to verifying End Lines with text, then I can use the aqString.Find workaround. Thanks

    • UnveN's avatar
      UnveN
      Staff
      10 years ago

      Hello!

       

      Try contentText property. It is similar to the innerText but normalizes white spacing ensuring /n as the line-break character (in JScript).

      • Colin_McCrae's avatar
        Colin_McCrae
        Community Hero
        10 years ago

        If you're ever not sure what a string contains (in terms of invisible/whitespace/non-printing characters) you can capture it, and then step through it in a loop, character by character, and output the ASCII values of each character. That will tell you exactly what it's using and you can take action accordingly.

         

        https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cdb6974y(v=vs.90).aspx

         

        ... would be what you need to get the values in Jscript I believe.

         

        (Should return 10 for "/n")