Selenide - check if link text matches to regular expression

Question

Is it possible to find a link that matches to the regular expression?

Here https://demoqa.com/links the 2nd link has a random name that is generated each time with the pattern Home[a-zA-Z]{5}.

Is there any way to check if link text matches to the RegEx or simply contains substring + smth? XPath //a[contains(text(),'substring')] or $(partialLinkText("substring")) do not fit because they will select both Home and Home[a-zA-Z]{5}

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 21 '22 at 04:26

First the regex should include numbers as well: "Home[a-zA-Z\d]{5}", and the only solution I can thing of (at least for now), is to iterate over all link elements that contains Home:

StreamSupport.stream(Selenide.$$(Selectors.byPartialLinkText("Home")).asFixedIterable().spliterator(), false)
                .filter( element -> element.getText().matches("Home[a-zA-Z\\d]{5}") )
                .findFirst();

But if you know that your browser supports XPath 2.0, so you can use matches function with regex:

Selenide.$(Selectors.byXpath("//a[matches(text(), 'Home[a-zA-Z\\d]{5}')]"));

Maybe worth nothing the following links about XPath 2.0 support in browsers:

Selenide - check if link text matches to regular expression

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