What are the special characters in selector and how to handle variable (with special char) that is used as selector

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#1

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. selector

my variable jobID has characters such as "- ( / \ ".

#2

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 \*).

#3

My selector aaname value has ( and / . Is that why I am unable to click on that element?

#4

The ( and / are not restricted, but if you want to be sure, you could always replace them with ?, the wildcard for a single character.

#5

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).