How to write and regular expression in WATIR?

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rajagopalan madasami

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Jun 22, 2019, 12:52:28 PM6/22/19

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Consider the below code

b.element(name: /hello|username/).send_keys 'testid'


`/hello|username/` represents the or operator, that means it searches the name which is hello or username, how do I write regular expression which search for hello and username?

Chuck van der Linden

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Jul 19, 2019, 12:42:09 PM7/19/19

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Well it's ruby code, so you use standard ruby regular expressions. is what you've got above not working? Normally I'd not use the generic 'element' but the more specific type such as .input

Can you share a sample of the HTML you are trying to interact with?

Titus Fortner

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Jul 19, 2019, 12:54:44 PM7/19/19

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Rubular is a great resource for trying things, and there are plenty of tutorials: https://rubular.com/

If you need both, you have a lot of options, but: /hello.*username/