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marinb
Contributor
14 years ago

Problem with using wildcards in Object finding

I am using a function (javascript) to find objects in the application by checking the properties of an object (using Find & FindAllChildren) The help states you can use * or ? as wildcards. ...
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tristaanogre
Esteemed Contributor
14 years ago
Ah, gotcha... the problem is the string you're passing in.  In JScript, the quote characters are "special" characters and need to be indicated differently.  Change your line as follows:



var sSearchString = '*WPFObject(\"TextBlock\", \"*\", 8)*';




Let me know if that helps.