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anandmar24
Occasional Contributor
11 years ago

To FindChild programmatically with Property Not Equal To specific Value

Hi All, I have a parent object with 2 similar childern differentiated by WndCaption property. One has Blank and other has value. I need to find the child which has some value (that is not blank...
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    Ryan_Moran
    11 years ago
    This may work (haven't tried it): "*?*"

    Specifies any single character with any leading or trailing characters.
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Ryan_Moran
Valued Contributor
11 years ago
Pass an array of properties and values to specify multiple properties and help narrow down your search. Should look something like this:

myChildObject = ParentObject.FindChild(propertyArray,valueArray,depth,refresh)



[url= http://support.smartbear.com/viewarticle/55112/]More information here.[/url]



If this doesn't work in conjunction with wildcards (such as * and ?) then iterating the object array returned by the findall/findallchildren methods is probably the best alternative.