How to search for quoted strings

Hi,



The first obvious solution is to use the .innerText property of the page to get all text from the page and then process it with the regular expression like this (untested, off-top of my head):

(['"]?)(\.+)\1



(Not sure at the moment how to handle apostrophes)

Hi Alexei,



Thanks a lot for your reply. Tried and below regular expression works for me:

" ( ' [ ^ ' ] * ' ) " . The issue for me now is .innerText property. The innerText property value is Null for my application object although I can get innerText values for other web pages. I have tried changing Current project Tree models (blind try) but still couldn't manage to get innerText values. Also, If I can get any sample code then that would be of great help.



Tried below code where InStr is NullValue in my object browser:



InStr = Sys.Browser.Page(URL).Form("form1").innerText

Set regEx = New RegExp

regEx.Pattern = "('[^']*')"

regEx.Global = True

Set Matches = regEx.Execute(InStr)

For Each Match in Matches

ResStr = ResStr & Match.Value

Next

Log.Message(ResStr)

Thanks

 

Hi,



Why not just to check if innerText is null?

E.g.:

InStr = Sys.Browser.Page(URL).Form("form1").innerText

If (InStr Is Null) Then _

  InStr = ""

Set regEx = New RegExp

...

Hi Alex,



Unfortunately, this doesn't work. Error says 'InStr' is an illegal assignment.

Object browser  also not showing any details of  contentText or  document  properties of the Sys.Page or Sys.Page.Panel objects. Any other techniques that can be of help?



Thanks

Hi,



>  Error says 'InStr' is an illegal assignment

This is correct because InStr is the name of the VBScript's function and it is not possible to assign the value to the function in VBScript.

Try to change the name to, say, sInStr.

Hi Alex,



That does work but that doesn't solve the issue because when 'InStr' value is Null, it means Test Complete is saying there is no text on the page which is wrong in my case, or it is not recognising the text and so when I run above script it returns log which returns empty  'ResStr' & 'InStr' values. In my case there is Text in the page and also holds quoted strings. I tried same script on other websites and it works fine giving me InStr values on my log.

Thanks a lot.