That explains it. Thanks for the quick answer. No good deed goes unpunished, so:
The Rdoc for contains_text (http://wtr.rubyforge.org/rdoc/classes/Watir/IE.html#M000294) does say "Returns true if the specified text was found." Is that wrong? Why were my asserts passing when receiving an index (i.e. a number string) rather than "true"? -D Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:31:28 -0800 From: Jeff Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Wtr-general] IE.contains_text and assert To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" contains_text returns the index where the text was found or nil when it's not.. try assert( ie.contains_text( "abcd" ) != nil ) j. On 11/9/05, Dara Lillis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm relatively new to Watir and am having some problems with asserts > on IE.contains_text, hoping for some enlightenment. > > Basically, my problem is as follows; I have some code that says > (essentially): > > assert(ie.contains_text("abcd")) > > This seems to work ok when "abcd" is present, but fails (and causes my > test to stop running) when "abcd" is not present. The reason for the > failure seems to be that ie.contains_text returns <nil> rather than "false" > > In attempting to find out what is going on I've been outputting the > result of ie.contains_text to the console and notice that when "abcd" > is present (and the assert passes) the returned value of contains_text > is "522" when I was expecting "true" > > I'm finding this all a bit confusing. Can someone explain it to me? > > Thanks, > > -Dara > > _______________________________________________ > Wtr-general mailing list > [email protected] > http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general > > > -- "Remember. Understand. Believe. Yield! -> http://ruby-lang.org"; Jeff Wood -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/wtr-general/attachments/20051109/901eb852 /attachment.htm ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Wtr-general mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general End of Wtr-general Digest, Vol 24, Issue 12 ******************************************* _______________________________________________ Wtr-general mailing list [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/wtr-general
