Extract value of variable in string in Selenium IDE

Question

String = There are 4 records in this list Here 4 is value of variable 'n'. I need to extract this value of variable from message displayed on web application using Selenium IDE. Much appreciated.

Answer 1

1. use storeText to store the text message
2. echo to verify it
3. use storeEval to extract the numeric value from text message string
4. echo it and use it where required

Check example below for a sample solution.

storeText id=abcXYZabc myVar 
storeEval storedVars['myVar'].match(/\d+/); myExtractedNum 
echo ${myExtractedNum}



<tr>
    <td>storeText</td>
    <td>//xPath/xyz/div/div[3]/p[8]</td>
    <td>myVar</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>echo</td>
    <td>${myVar}</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>storeEval</td>
    <td>storedVars['myVar'].match(/\d+/)</td>
    <td>myExtractedNum</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>echo</td>
    <td>${myExtractedNum}</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>

Answer 2

<tr>
    <td>storeText</td>
    <td>xpath of string</td>
    <td>string</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>echo</td>
    <td>${string}</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>storeEval</td>
    <td>storedVars['string'].match(&quot;are(.*)records&quot;)</td>
    <td>number</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>storeEval</td>
    <td>storedVars['number'][1]</td>
    <td>num</td>
</tr>
<tr>
    <td>echo</td>
    <td>${num}</td>
    <td></td>
</tr>

• storeText | xpath of string | string => extracts the string
• echo | ${string} => display string
• storeEval | storedVars['string'].match("are(.*)records") | number => gets the substrings "are 4 records", 4
• storeEval | storedVars['number'][1] | num => get second substring
• echo | ${num} => prints the value you require