[wtr-general] Re: Unable to find the value blah... within a listbox. Value is retrieved from excel cell

2008-12-02 Thread Darin Duphorn
I've tried both copying it from and entering manually and I'm always getting 'à' I've also tried this in the ruby code and it didn't work .gsub('à'.'...') Thanks though. I've asked the developers to remove the ... from the word. -Original Message- From:

[wtr-general] Re: Unable to find the value blah... within a listbox. Value is retrieved from excel cell

2008-12-02 Thread Darin Duphorn
I've figured it out. There is a setting within excel that converts ... to ellipses. To remove this setting goto Tool- AutoCorrect Options... and removed the ... to ... conversion. Darin -Original Message- From: watir-general@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

[wtr-general] Re: Unable to find the value blah... within a listbox. Value is retrieved from excel cell

2008-12-01 Thread Chuck vdL
Is 'Blah the actual value defined in the HTML for that listbox item, or is perhaps the browser UI visually truncating something longer down to what will fit in available space for the way the listbox is defined? On Dec 1, 1:11 pm, Moochie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For some reason when I

[wtr-general] Re: Unable to find the value blah... within a listbox. Value is retrieved from excel cell

2008-12-01 Thread Darin Duphorn
The actuall value is Filter by Coach... The ... That follow the work coach are displaying as á. I believe in excel that ... Means á Not sure though. -Original Message- From: watir-general@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chuck vdL Sent: Monday, December 01,

[wtr-general] Re: Unable to find the value blah... within a listbox. Value is retrieved from excel cell

2008-12-01 Thread Darin Duphorn
The value in the listbox is displayed as Filter by Coach... selected=selected Filter by Coach.../option The problem seems to be when I read the value from a excel cell it contains á. -Original Message- From: watir-general@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

[wtr-general] Re: Unable to find the value blah... within a listbox. Value is retrieved from excel cell

2008-12-01 Thread Alex Collins
This is because in Excel you likely have the ellipsis character (...) as a single character not three separate period chracters (.). Ruby (and therefor Watir) doesn't support character sets / unicode as one might expect. Therefore you receive the á character instead. Try pasting the value