textContent Property Match But Don't?

I have a function (vbscript) that will compare two strings at the ASCII level, this may tell you where the differences lie (also attached in a text file with proper indentation).

Hope this helps

Dave

'Description:  Compares the ASCII Values of two strings and highlights differences
'Parameters:   pString1 - first piece of text to compare
'            pString2 - second piece of text to compare
Sub CompareAsciiValuesOfText(pString1, pString2)
 Dim aString1(), aString2()
 Dim sThisLetter, sThisAsc
 Dim iEnd
 
  call Log.AppendFolder("Analysing string differences","CompareAsciiValuesOfText() Looking at the ASCII values of the strings")

 'Code doesnt handle empty strings so exit
 If pString1 = "" or pString2 = "" Then
  Log.Message "Empty string", "PrintAndCompareAsciiValuesOfText() pString1 or pString2 is empty - code doesn't handle this, exiting sub."
  call Log.PopLogFolder
  Exit sub
 End If

 Dim x
 For x = 1 to len(pString1)
  ReDim Preserve aString1(x)
  sThisLetter = mid(pString1,x,1)
  sThisAsc = Asc(sThisLetter)
  aString1(x) = "ASCII Letter= " & sThisLetter & chr(13) & "ASCII number=" & sThisAsc
 Next

 For x = 1 to len(pString2)
  ReDim Preserve aString2(x)
  sThisLetter = mid(pString2,x,1)
  sThisAsc = Asc(sThisLetter)
  aString2(x) = "ASCII Letter= " & sThisLetter & chr(13) & "ASCII number=" & sThisAsc
 Next

 If ubound(aString1) = ubound(aString2) Then
  call Log.Message("String lengths are the same ","Length of both strings: " & ubound(aString1))
 else
  call log.Warning("String lengths are different","Length of String1: " & ubound(aString1) & chr(13) & "Length of String2: " & ubound(aString2))
 End If

 'now loop through them both - we can only end at the shortest string
 If ubound(aString1) > ubound(aString2) Then
  iEnd = ubound(aString2)
 else
  iEnd = ubound(aString1)
 End If
 For x = 1 to iEnd
  'highlight any differences in characters
  If aString1(x) <> aString2(x) Then
   call log.Warning ("Mismatch at character position " & x,"String 1:" & chr(13) & Left(pString1,x) & chr(13) & chr(13) & "String 2:" & chr(13) & Left(pString2,x))
   call log.Warning ("ASCII details","String 1 position " & x & ":" & chr(13) & aString1(x) & chr(13) & chr(13) & "String 2 position " & x & ":" & chr(13) & aString2(x))
  End If
 Next
 call Log.PopLogFolder
End Sub

 Hi,

The difference in string is the first probable cause, agreed. I usually use an online tool (http://www.textdiff.com/) to compare stings, one needs to be careful to copy correctly for hidden characters as well.

- Ali

Hi,

String mismatch:

- Sometimes there are 'leading' spaces as well, but I'm sure you might have checked that as well.

- Secondly at times TestComplete changes special characters on its own. I know for some objects the "$" sign turning to "_".

Different object

- Since the objects are dynamic with panels all over the place, it could be TestComplete is capturing and comparing different object than the one you want to check. I cannot tell from the name map shown, there are 6 panels in total shown, I would suggest to use verify the object name of the original object you want to capture using object spy and compare with the parent objecct map name given here.

Let me know what comes up!

Is the text all on one line in the application?

I have had issues like that where the strings look the same, but there was actually a new line character that wasn't obvious to me just looking at the string (it just looked like a space).