Re: Issue 1816 in selenium: [IDE] JS regex replace for line break does not work with 1.0.11 and Firefox 4

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Comment #4 on issue 1816 by peter.kehl: [IDE] JS regex replace for line
break does not work with 1.0.11 and Firefox 4
https://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=1816

This issue is still present in Selenium IDE 2.8.0 and Firefox 33. It's not
restricted to regular expressions. It applies to any presence of \n
in 'target' or 'value' columns. That restricts usability of getEval and
similar commands that evaluate contents of 'target' (and/or 'value') as
Javascript.

Using \\n in string constants doesn't help. Once I switch to edit another
command in the test case, Selenium IDE changes '\\n' to '\\\n'. And '\n' is
not passed to Javascript: | getEval | alert('hi\\\nmate') | will show a
message 'himate'.

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Comment #5 on issue 1816 by oleks...@google.com: [IDE] JS regex replace for

line break does not work with 1.0.11 and Firefox 4
https://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=1816

Selenium IDE 2.8.0 and Firefox 35.0.1: The issue is present if the \n is in
the Target. However, there is no issue if the \n is in the Value (for
verifyText/waitForText commands at least)

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Comment #6 on issue 1816 by saen...@gmail.com: [IDE] JS regex replace for

line break does not work with 1.0.11 and Firefox 4
https://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=1816

I faced a similar problem. This is a possible work around to remove the new
line character: (1) Escape the string, (2) replace the escaped new line
character (%0A) with blank, (2) then unescape back to the original value,
eg:

storeEval | unescape(escape(storedVars['has_new_line']).replace(/%0A/g,''))
| no_nl

This new line character appears to have come from HTML break <br /> that is
rendered by the browser, then extracted by Selenium IDE as \n.

[sele...@googlecode.com]

Comment #7 on issue 1816 by libby.st...@gmail.com: [IDE] JS regex replace

for line break does not work with 1.0.11 and Firefox 4
https://code.google.com/p/selenium/issues/detail?id=1816

@peter.kehl I was having the same problem with a javascript alert within
Selenium IDE 2.9.0, and the workaround I found was to use \\u000A as the
newline character. So for your example: | getEval | alert('hi\\\nmate') |
becomes: | getEval | alert('hi\\u000Amate') |

That did the trick for me...