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Looking for non-zero property TOs: Can I match a Description with number property, but use a regex match?

How can I -without iterating, i.e. by using .ChildObjects- match all test objects with any non-zero value in a number property?

Contained question: Can I match, using a regex match, a property value that contains a number (i.e. VarType returns 3 (vbLong) for the getROProperty value of this property) using a regex match? I don't think so.

For example:

Dim Descr: Descr=Description.Create
Descr ("micclass").Value="WebElement"
Descr ("height").Value=11

matches some controls in my web application, i.e. Page.ChildObjects (Descr).Count > 0.

But assigning the 11 as a string, i.e. changing the height line to:

Descr ("height").Value="11"

matches zero controls.

This is quite bad, since consequently, I am unable to look for test objects with height not equal to 0. That would've been exactly what I need.

I'd use

Descr ("height").Value="^[1-9][0-9]*$"
Descr ("height").RegularExpression=true

to search for all instances with nonzero height values, but since the string search does not match, the regex match won´t work, too. (In fact, it indeed doesn´t).

Solution

  • It is known that integer types has to be passed as integers in the description rendering the usage of regular expressions useless unfortunately.

    I do not have a QTP installation at hand right now, but to investigate it further, what happens if you use

    Print Browser("myBrowser").WebElement("height:=11").ChildObjects.Count

    and 

    Print Browser("myBrowser").WebElement("height:=^[1-9][0-9]*$").ChildObjects.Count

    Where "myBrowser" is your browser definition of course.