Getting error Invalid character at character position for select dropdown with innertext

[praneet]

Hi Team,

We are using Ranorax latest licensed version 8.3.0.
We are getting issue while selecting dropdown incase of special character ' in innerText.

Error Message:-
Invalid RxPath './/option[@innertext='Renorex's Forum']'.
Invalid character at character position 71.

In the above example my innerText value is dynamic that can be pass from external file.
Most of the cases it's working cool(Data doen't have any special characters) but in some cases it's failing may be because of special characters in innerText i.e Renorex's Forum.

So could you help me out.

[odklizec]

Hi,

At first, there is a new Ranorex version 8.3.1, with a lot of bugfixes. Please install this version and try to repeat your problem.

At next, could you please show us how exactly do you select dropdown items in your recording/code module? I'm not aware of any problem caused by apostrophe character? So if the apostrophe is indeed a cause of your problem, you will have to check and modify the ref data. Eventually, use regex expression in the xpath (~) instead of simple equality and remove problematic characters from the ref data.

[ahoisl]

The error signals a syntax problem with your RanoreXPath.
If you have a tick ' in a value in RanoreXPath, you have to escape the tick by preceding it with another tick, e.g.:
element[name='Alex'' element'] will match an element with name set to "Alex' element".

Regards,
Alex
Ranorex Team

[praneet]

Tried with RegEx then problem solved.
Below is the code used to select dropdown which has text with specialchar

OptionTag option = item.FindSingle(".//option[@innertext~'^textName']");
option.Selected = true;