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Reputation: 361

xPath Help - Selecting a specific word within a string

I am looking to extract a part of a string using xPath.

Full string -

Informational (nonfiction), 1,303 words, Level S (Grade 3)

HTML code:

<div class="bookInfo">
    Informational (nonfiction),
1,303 words,
Level S  (Grade 3)
</div>

I am looking to extract just the number of words from these strings, i.e. - 1,303 words in this case

The xPath of this string looks like 

//*[@id="contentarea-inner"]/div[3]/div[2]/div

Webpage in question - https://www.readinga-z.com/books/leveled-books/book/?id=820

Please advise on how I can modify the xPath so as to extract only the number of words from the page. I have several thousand pages to get this info from

Thanks

Upvotes: 2

Views: 826

Answers (2)

Shubham Jain
Shubham Jain

Reputation: 17563

You can achieve same using split function in java

Use the code:-

String text= driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[@id='contentarea-inner']/div[3]/div[2]/div")).getText();
String count1 = text.split(",")[1];
String count2 = text.split(",")[2];
String count = count1 + count2;
System.out.println(count);

Please get back to me if still facing any issue :)

Upvotes: 1

Igor Savinkin
Igor Savinkin

Reputation: 6277

Basically you need both xpath and regex:

  1. Get the text of the div node by xPath (see Shubham Jain's code)
  2. Apply regex to the text; for example. this: \s[,\d]+(?= words). See the regex's work on the text node.

Upvotes: 1

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