Grab chaning xpath by last 3 characters in chrome (WebDriver)

[SkysLastChance]

I have multiple xpaths that are always changing, except for the last 2 or 3 chars is there a way I can grab an xpath that changes like this? Or is there a alternative way I can try to grab these? 

$sElement = _WD_FindElement($sSession, $_WD_LOCATOR_ByXPath, '//*[@id="in5wO_4"]')  ;;enters dob

    _WD_ElementAction($sSession, $sElement, 'value', FormatDate($sR4))

@mikell was able to help with a similar issue in IE. However, this method wont work. 

$var = "_26"

; $sHTML = '<input name="in2xk_92" class="navitem s_147" id="in2xk_26" style="..." etc>'
$sHTML = _IEDocReadHTML($oIE)
$id = StringRegExpReplace($sHTML, '(?s).*?id="(\w+' & $var & ').*', "$1")
; Msgbox(0,"", $id)
$oInput = _IEGetObjById($oIE, $id)
; etc

 

Edited May 27, 2021 by SkysLastChance

[TheXman]

Have you tried using the xpath ends-with() function?

Here's a nice xpath cheat sheet with examples: https://devhints.io/xpath

Edited May 26, 2021 by TheXman

[SkysLastChance]

Thank you for this link. I appreciate it. 

However, I am still not understanding something here. 

$sElement = _WD_FindElement($sSession, $_WD_LOCATOR_ByXPath, '//*[ends-with(@id,"_4")]'  ;;enters dob
    _WD_ElementAction($sSession, $sElement, 'value', FormatDate($sR4))

I keep getting a syntax error. 

[SkysLastChance]

wow... ")" nvm... It still seems not to be finding the element though. 

 

Edited May 27, 2021 by SkysLastChance

[TheXman]

Thanks for the link?  Is that all you want to thank me for?    If so, I guess I'll add you to my ever increasing list of people to ignore. 

[SkysLastChance]

Okay, so I figured this out.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22436789/xpath-ends-with-does-not-work

In short browsers use xpath 1.0 and end-with() function is a 2.0 feature. 

There is an example of a nice work around here though.