How to use regular expression in EvaluateXpath ?

[nimishbhuta]

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

[baxatob]

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]

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.