This is because in Excel you likely have the ellipsis character (...) as a single character not three separate period chracters (.).
Ruby (and therefor Watir) doesn't support character sets / unicode as one might expect. Therefore you receive the á character instead. Try pasting the value into Excel from a plain text editor - notepad for example. On 1 Dec 2008, at 22:29, "Darin Duphorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The value in the listbox is displayed as "Filter by Coach..." > > selected="selected" >> Filter by Coach...</option> > > The problem seems to be when I read the value from a excel cell it > contains á. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: watir-general@googlegroups.com [mailto:watir-general@googlegroups.com > ] On Behalf Of Chuck vdL > Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 4:27 PM > To: Watir General > Subject: [wtr-general] Re: Unable to find the value "blah..." within > a listbox. Value is retrieved from excel cell > > > Can you show us the HTML that defines the listbox and its items? > > On Dec 1, 2:24 pm, "Darin Duphorn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> The actuall value is "Filter by Coach..." >> >> The ... That follow the work coach are displaying as á. >> >> I believe in excel that ... Means á >> >> Not sure though. >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: watir-general@googlegroups.com >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chuck vdL >> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2008 4:18 PM >> To: Watir General >> Subject: [wtr-general] Re: Unable to find the value "blah..." >> within a >> listbox. Value is retrieved from excel cell >> >> Is 'Blah...." the actual value defined in the HTML for that listbox >> item, or is perhaps the browser UI visually truncating something >> longer down to what will fit in available space for the way the >> listbox is defined? >> >> On Dec 1, 1:11 pm, Moochie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> For some reason when I attempt to find a value in a listbox that >>> contains three dots it doesn't find the value. >> >>> Has anyone else seen this? >> >>> Thanks, >> >>> Darin- Hide quoted text - >> >> - Show quoted text - > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Watir General" group. To post to this group, send email to watir-general@googlegroups.com Before posting, please read the following guidelines: http://wiki.openqa.org/display/WTR/Support To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
