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cauline's avatar
cauline
Contributor
8 years ago

I'm trying to use CheckProperty with RegExpressions.

Has anyone used RegExp with aqObject.CheckProperty?  I am trying to locate string(s) within a 'innerText' property, while ignoring white spaces (\n \t\ and spaces).  I am using JavaScript.
  • HKosova's avatar
    HKosova
    8 years ago
    cauline wrote:

    I am trying to verify property text of a Web Page table, but it has a bunch of control chars (\n \t) that I want to ignore:

    You could process the textContent value to remove extra whitespace and replace the control characters with usual spaces:

    var str = browser.___.textContent;
str = str.replace(/\s+/g, ' ');  // replace consecutive \r \n \t etc. with a single space
str = aqString.Trim(str); // remove leading and trailing whitespace

aqObject.CompareProperty(str, cmpEqual, "expected value", false);

    Note the usage of CompareProperty instead of CheckProperty, because we check the variable value (str) rather than the textContent property directly. Also make sure the expected value has the same normalized format as the value being checked.

Marsha_R's avatar
Marsha_R
Moderator

Please give us more specifics so we can give you a better answer.

 

It helps a lot if you show us exactly what you tried, what results you got, and what results you wanted instead.

cauline's avatar
cauline
Contributor
8 years ago

I am trying to verify property text of a Web Page table, but it has a bunch of control chars (\n \t) that I want to ignore:

 

aqObject.CheckProperty(browser.pageUatUlineComProductDetailH101.form.panelDvchart.table.table, "textContent", cmpEqual, "\n\nMODELNO.\nPRICE EACH\nADD TOCART\n\n\n1\n2\n6+\n\n\nH-101\n$17\n$15\n$13\n\nADD\n\n", false);

 

When I run the CheckProperty with the cmpEqual test, I simply want to ignore the newline and tab characters.

 

Thanks,

C

  • HKosova's avatar
    HKosova
    SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
    8 years ago
    cauline wrote:

    I am trying to verify property text of a Web Page table, but it has a bunch of control chars (\n \t) that I want to ignore:

    You could process the textContent value to remove extra whitespace and replace the control characters with usual spaces:

    var str = browser.___.textContent;
str = str.replace(/\s+/g, ' ');  // replace consecutive \r \n \t etc. with a single space
str = aqString.Trim(str); // remove leading and trailing whitespace

aqObject.CompareProperty(str, cmpEqual, "expected value", false);

    Note the usage of CompareProperty instead of CheckProperty, because we check the variable value (str) rather than the textContent property directly. Also make sure the expected value has the same normalized format as the value being checked.

    • cauline's avatar
      cauline
      Contributor
      8 years ago

      Thanks, I'll give it a whirl!

    • cauline's avatar
      cauline
      Contributor
      8 years ago

      I am trying to do this with multiple browsers, which causes the cmpMatches to fail.  It looks like different browsers render the HTML with more or less control characters (\n \t) which causes the cmpMatches to fail.

      • tristaanogre's avatar
        tristaanogre
        Esteemed Contributor
        8 years ago

        You may need to create some sort of Switch statement to set your regular expression.  Define a regular expression for each browser type, set it on a case of the browser, and then call it in your check Property.

        An alternative is that, if you don't need to compare the ENTIRE string but only check a certain part of the string, you could us cmpContains and just enter the relevant portion into the Value parameter.