you need to match on the text of the span, not the span itself. > @mytestvalue = $ie.span(:id, 'db_data').text.matches(/"db_\\[0-9\\]*/)
( i think its the .text method you want, if it gives an undefinedied method error, I got it wrong ;-) ) On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 10:28 AM, maven999 <maven...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm trying to grab a string from a block of span text from my UI. The > block has <SPAN id=db_data> and the block is > > > Connected to: Current Database (db_1229419050) > Created: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 09:17:30 GMT > Next creation: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:17:30 GMT > > I want to grab the db_* string so I can compare it to the value > returned by dbi. I have tried: > > @mytestvalue = $ie.span(:id, 'db_data').matches(/"db_\\[0-9\\]*/) > > but I get the following error on console: > > NoMethodError: undefined method `matches' for #<Watir::Span:0x3790ab0> > > Does SPAN not support 'matches'? Any idea how I can get this to work? > Thanks! > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 watir-general-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/watir-general -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---