How to get portion of text what you expect to verify in Selenium - Java

Let us take a scenario in which you need to verify number of records displayed in the page.

So from the web page text - 2 products found. We want to extract only 2. This can be achieved in below steps.

1) Write xpath to get text from web page,

String result_Text = driver.findElement(By.xpath("/html/body/table[5]/tbody/tr/td")).getText();

Note: In this case, used getText() because text is in html and not in attribute. If it is in attribute, you could use getAttribute();

2) Use indexOf method in java, that would return the position of particular string or character something like this:

int indexOfColon = result_Text.indexOf(':');

Similarly get index of products

int indexOfProducts = result_Text.indexOf('products');

3) Now use, subString() method in Java to get number what you are looking for:

String textReturned = result_Text.substring(indexOfColon+1, indexOfProducts).trim();

Now, textReturned is containing only number of products you are looking for.

You can use, Integer.parseInt(textReturned) to convert String value to int datatype.

Hope this blog has been useful to you.