Hi all,
Please advise what are the special characters in selector. And how do we handle variable (with special characters) that is used as selector i.e. aaname.
thank you.
I have attached my selector. 
my variable jobID has characters such as "- ( / \ ".
Special characters are *
and ?
. These are handled by making selectors which avoid integrating the characters in the selector. These cannot be escaped (e.g. with \?
or \*
).
My selector aaname value has ( and / . Is that why I am unable to click on that element?
The (
and /
are not restricted, but if you want to be sure, you could always replace them with ?
, the wildcard for a single character.
But if I replace the characters with a wild card, the variable name will not be able to match the aaname selector?
Background is that I have created a variable to store The recordID value that is obtained from Excel file.
The recordID can be 12345 or AB(BC)/EFG/22006 (with special characters e.g. “(” and “/” and “-“)
Thereafter, I passed this variable to a selector. I noticed that if the recordID is “12345”, the selector works fine (can click the link).
But if it is “AB(BC)/EFG/22006”, there is issue with the selector (i.e. cannot find the aaname and thus cannot click the link).