Regex in Selenium Xpath Not Working //[contains(@content-desc,"Resend in .?[0-9a-zA-Z][0-9][0-9a-zA-Z]. sec")]

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My Text in UI is "Resend in 48 sec" in which "48" is a timer which is dynamic so I want to crate an Xpath using the contains and Inside Contains I am using Regex but still unable to find the Element

//*[contains(@content-desc,"Resend in .*?[0-9a-zA-Z]*[0-9][0-9a-zA-Z].* sec")]

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 23 '21 at 11:40

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Selenium is still using XPath 1.0, which was defined over 20 years ago and has no support for regular expressions.

answered Jun 23 '21 at 11:40

Michael Kay

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Prophet · Answer 2 · 2021-06-23T10:06:16.673

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You can use this XPath instead:

//*[contains(@content-desc,"Resend in") and(contains(@content-desc,"sec"))]

Now you can get this element, get it's content-desc attribute value and then validate the content of that attribute

edited Jun 23 '21 at 10:06

answered Jun 23 '21 at 10:02

Prophet

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It's partially correct but I want to make sure that whether Number is displaying or Not.That's the reason why I am using Regex – RAJA RAM Jun 23 '21 at 10:03
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where do we have regex here ? – cruisepandey Jun 23 '21 at 10:03

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 23 '21 at 10:08

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You may wanna do this instead :

String regEx = ".*?[0-9a-zA-Z]*[0-9][0-9a-zA-Z].*";
driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[contains(@content-desc,'Resend in') + '"+regEx+"'  + and(contains(@content-desc, 'sec')) ]"));

answered Jun 23 '21 at 10:08

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Regex in Selenium Xpath Not Working //*[contains(@content-desc,"Resend in .*?[0-9a-zA-Z]*[0-9][0-9a-zA-Z].* sec")]

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Regex in Selenium Xpath Not Working //[contains(@content-desc,"Resend in .?[0-9a-zA-Z][0-9][0-9a-zA-Z]. sec")]