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Reputation: 963

Xpath does not recognize regex parts

I am new to this and I am trying to understand the usage of selenium and XPath

string exp = "//*[@id=\"g_1_bHwVovAN\"]/td[2]";
var dateTime = chromeDriver.FindElementsByXPath(exp);

With this code, I can only take 1 element. How can I change this "bHwVovAN" part, so I can reach the all that kinds of elements on the website. 

string exp = "//*[@id=\"g_1_[^[0-9+]]\"]/td[2]";
var dateTime = chromeDriver.FindElementsByXPath(exp);

I tried to use regex, but It did not work. It did not recognize regex parts. Also, I looked at the other posts, and tried to use matches, and also did not work. How can I solve it?

If I did not write clear and correct way, I am also new to English. Sorry

Upvotes: 0

Views: 369

Answers (1)

Andersson
Andersson

Reputation: 52665

There is a matches() function in XPath 2.0 that would solve your issue, but selenium doesn't support this XPath version.

You can try below to match elements with id attribute that starts with "g_1_":

string exp = "//*[starts-with(@id,\"g_1_\")]/td[2]";

Upvotes: 1

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