Looping XPath variables in robot framework keywords

Question

newbie to the robot framework. I am trying to have a for loop within the keywords.

• Max should be a numeric value of 9

• So the for loop will increase from 1 to 9 and replace the variable that i inserted into the XPath

  *** Variables ***
  ${MAX}  9
  
  *** Keywords ***
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      [Arguments]     ${MAX}        
  
      :FOR    ${EACH}     IN  ${MAX}
      \   click element   xpath:/html/body/main/div/div/div/div[${EACH}]/a
  

Currently the issue now is that it is not looping and going straight to 9. Not looping from 1..2...9.

Would appreciate if someone can take a look at it.

Answer 1

It seems forgot to use range function you can do like-

 FOR    ${INDEX}    IN RANGE    1   ${MAX+1}

    click element   xpath:/html/body/main/div/div/div/div[${INDEX}]/a
 END

Reference - new style of for loop in RF 3.1 release