Convert regex to string in webdriver selenium [closed]

Question

My HTML code:

<select id="selectrepo" class="col-md-5 col-md-offset-1 select ng-dirty ng-valid-parse ng-valid ng-valid-required ng-touched" ng-required="true" ng-model="locFrmdata" ng-disabled="!locPathdet" name="select" required="required">

<option id="dfltval" selected="selected" value="">Kiezen</option>

<option id="locDet+'0'" class="ng-binding ng-scope" value="\keur\BVGO" ng-repeat="locationDet in childRepos track by $index">\keur\BVGO</option>
</select>

This is the WebDriver code I'm writing:

String repos =  new String("\keur\BVGO");
Select repo = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("selectrepo")));
repo.selectByVisibleText(repos);

and also

repo.selectByValue("\keur\BVGO");
repo.selectByVisibleText("\keur\BVGO");

How do I find this element?

Answer 1

Did you try to escape special symbols?

repo.selectByVisibleText("\\keur\\BVGO");

Answer 2

Try to use the next xpath:

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//select[@id='selectrepo']/option[text()='\\keur\\BVGO']")).click();

Answer 3

The below code works for me:

Select dropdown = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("selectrepo")));
dropdown.selectByValue("\\keur\\BVGO");

You can also use selectByIndex for selecting the value;

Select dropdown = new Select(driver.findElement(By.id("selectrepo")));
dropdown.selectByIndex(1);

Answer 4

Why do you not use following:

repo.selectByVisibleText('\keur\BVGO');

OR

driver.findElement(By.xpath("//select[@id='selectrepo']/option[text()='\keur\BVGO']")).click();

Only single quotes disables interpolation.