what does $ie.span(:id, 'db_data').text return - it might be a problem with your regular expression. What are you expecting @mytestvalue = $ie.span(:id, 'db_data').text.matches(/"db_\\[0-9\\]*/)
to return ( ie what are you hoping to get back ). he to_s on the end iis unlikely to be needed Paul On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:02 AM, maven999 <maven...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Paul, > > Thanks for your quick reply. > > It doesn't work. And neither does it work when I convert the result > into string: > > @mytestvalue = $ie.span(:id, 'db_data').text.matches(/"db_\\[0-9\\] > */) .to_s > > I think the problem is the datastructure that the $ie.span(:id, > 'db_data') returns. If it is an array, maybe I should be parsing it a > different way? > > > > On Dec 16, 12:48 pm, "Paul Rogers" <paul.rog...@shaw.ca> wrote: >> 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
