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nimishbhuta's avatar
nimishbhuta
Frequent Contributor
8 years ago

How to use regular expression in EvaluateXpath ?

Hello All, 

 

I am trying to find different table object inside a frame. In order to find table inside the frame, I am using EvaluateXpath

("//TABLE[@id='jdeGridData.*']" where jdeGridata has different numbers such jdeGridata_01,jdeGridata_02 etc. 

 

I need to use regular expression for jdeGridData which I tried using jdeGriddata.* but that is not working.Can you please let me know how can it be done. 

 

Regards,

 

Nimish

2 Replies

  • baxatob's avatar
    baxatob
    Community Hero
    8 years ago

    Hi,

     

    XPath (1.0) does not support regular expressions as well as TestComplete wildcards.

    You can use native XPath syntax instead:

     

     

    //table[contains(@id, 'jdeGridData')] 
  • AlexKaras's avatar
    AlexKaras
    Community Hero
    8 years ago

    Hi,

     

    baxatob is correct. This is one of the reasons of why XPath is not recommended approach in TestComplete world.

    Object search and identification provided by TestComplete in 99% of cases is way fasted and more flexible than XPath.

    In your case,

    parent.Table('jdeGridData_*')

    or, sometimes better

    parent.WaitTable('jdeGridData_*', 10000)

    should work.