How to extract partial text from an element seperated by
tag through selenium?

Question

How to separate 70 from 70 (100%) where 70 and (100%) are linked by <br> tag in selenium?

Here's the structure:

<a href="/report/campaigns/698/sent" class=""> 70<br> (100%)</a>

Code that I am using is :

String[] REP=new String[1];
String Repor= driver.findElement(By.xpath("//html[1]/body[1]/section[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[2]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[1]/div[5]/table[1]/tbody[1]/tr[1]/td[6]")).getText();

REP=Repor.split(""); 

System.out.println("REP "+REP[0]);

Output that i am getting is : 7

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C. Peck · Accepted Answer · 2019-03-16T15:26:08.363

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That Xpath is crazy, but to address your issue I think it might be as simple as adding a space between the quotes in your split() function. It should be

REP=Repor.split(“ “)

Edit after clarification: the string Repor is being set with a line break. Thus the following code should find "70" and "(100%)" individually.

String lines[] = Repor.split("\\r?\\n");

then lines[0] is "70" and lines[1] is "(100%)". Is this what you wanted?

edited Mar 16 '19 at 15:26

answered Mar 16 '19 at 14:22

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Tried that already. Didn't work. Its printing the whole thing. – Ashu Mar 16 '19 at 14:30
What does the string Repor come out to if you debug or add a print line just after it? – C. Peck Mar 16 '19 at 14:37
Prints the same whole thing. I am using it in a 'for loop' and getting values from a table column. – Ashu Mar 16 '19 at 14:46
What, you mean including the br or just “70 %100”? – C. Peck Mar 16 '19 at 14:49
70 (100%) This is the output for both cases. (100%) is in next line – Ashu Mar 16 '19 at 14:52
I've edited my question to address the line break. Does that work for you? – C. Peck Mar 16 '19 at 15:26
Yes. Got 70. But i need to store it as int and cant be using parseint since we have used string[]. kindly suggest. – Ashu Mar 16 '19 at 15:56
Do you just want the first line, 70? If so, the following should work: `result = int(lines[0])` – C. Peck Mar 16 '19 at 16:02
Yes i want only 70. Used result = int(lines[0]) but following errors are thrown: - Syntax error on token "int", delete this token - Type mismatch: cannot convert from String to int – Ashu Mar 16 '19 at 16:11
Forgot we are using Java. Try Integer.parseInt(lines[0]); – C. Peck Mar 16 '19 at 16:27
@Ashu Have you gotten this to work? If so would you accept one of mine or DebanjanB's answers if you get the chance? – C. Peck Mar 16 '19 at 18:35
Everything is working perfectly. Thanks a lot for the help. Really appreciate it. – Ashu Mar 16 '19 at 19:38
No problem, glad to hear it. On to the next problem! – C. Peck Mar 16 '19 at 19:40

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 16 '19 at 14:46

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To extract the text 70 you can use either of the following Locator Strategies:

cssSelector:

WebElement myElement = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector("a[href='/report/campaigns/698/sent']"));
String myText = ((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript('return arguments[0].firstChild.textContent;', myElement).toString();

xpath:

WebElement myElement = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//a[@href='/report/campaigns/698/sent']"));
String myText = ((JavascriptExecutor)driver).executeScript('return arguments[0].firstChild.textContent;', myElement).toString();

answered Mar 16 '19 at 14:46

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Tried the xpath locator strategy but the output came as 70 (100%). All in one line – Ashu Mar 16 '19 at 15:05
Got the required result. Used substring method after your suggested code. Thanks a lot. :) – Ashu Mar 16 '19 at 15:08
@Ashu Not sure where you are exactly stuck but if you have used my code you won't need `substring` for sure. – undetected Selenium Mar 16 '19 at 15:12

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 17 '19 at 10:16

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Each tag is considered a separator for exist text-node of the parent tag: decision is to specify an index of desired text-node //a/text()[1]

answered Mar 17 '19 at 10:16

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How to extract partial text from an element seperated by
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