selenium: saving text and reg exp

redrose123 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: selenium: saving text and reg exp by planetscape (Chancellor) on Dec 18, 2009 at 15:07 UTC
Using WWW::Selenium To Test Or Automate An Ajax Website Re^3: My Favourite Regex Tools (Was: Parsing a Variable Format String) HTH, planetscape	[reply]
Re: selenium: saving text and reg exp by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Dec 18, 2009 at 15:58 UTC
redrose123, With more information, I could be more specific. WWW::Selenium provides a myriad of methods that may be applicable to your situation. get_title() get_body_text() $sel->get_html_source() - which you can use your favorite HTML parser with $sel->is_text_present($pattern) - which takes a regular expression Cheers - L~R	[reply]
Re: selenium: saving text and reg exp by ww (Archbishop) on Dec 18, 2009 at 14:54 UTC
Would WWW::Selenium help? `perldoc perlretut` & company	[reply] [d/l]
Re: selenium: saving text and reg exp by spq (Friar) on Dec 18, 2009 at 16:04 UTC
There is a selenium command for almost anything you want to do in testing a web page. For example, using the IDE you will find a number of store commands, such as storeText. I have found that frequently the fastest way to find out how to do something with a selenium test in Perl (my experience with Selenium is almost all front end through the IDE) is to add an appropriate command in the IDE and then export to Perl to see the syntax used. So, for storeText I found the example boiled down to: `my $text = $sel->get_text("//xpath");`	[reply] [d/l]