Author: emalis

How to Regex append or prepend to lines in Notepad++ and Sublime Text

This is one of the most common tasks that come up when editing code. For both text editors the syntax is almost the same.

For both you would initiate the Search/Replace function and enable Regex for Search/Replace.

In the search field enter :

^(.+)$

This will select all lines individually in the file

In the replace field for Sublime Text enter:

cookie$1monster

This will prepend “cookie” to the beginning of each line and append monster to the end of each line

In the replace field for Notepad++ enter:

cookie\1monster

This will prepend “cookie” to the beginning of each line and append monster to the end of each line

That’s it. Some pretty pictures below to go along with the text madness.

When using Selenium IDE to check if text exists in an element, regex is usually auto coded by the tool, something like this, when looking for the existence of the word Weather:

self.assertRegexpMatches(self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("html/body/div[1]/div[2]/div/div[1]/label").text, r"^[\s\S]*Weather[\s\S]*$")

Sometimes it is easier just to use “assert in” like this:

assert "Weather" in 
self.driver.find_element_by_css_selector("div.classname1.classname2>div.clearfix>label").text

change elements according to your situation

Had some trouble recently testing with some non standard characters, mainly “ and ”

I originally had this line in the Python code:

self.assertEqual(self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("html/body/example").text,"and then comes “special text” in the UI", msg=None)

When running this script, an error would be returned:

SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xe2' in file 

I had to add this to the top of the Python files

# coding=UTF-8

So now the Python (Selenium) script was running fine. However, when I tried to test with nose (nosetest) I got a different error:

AssertionError: u'and then comes \u201cspecial text\u201d in the UI' != 'and then comes \xe2\x80\x9cspecial text\xe2\x80\x9d in the UI'

soooo, then I added a decode at the end of the questionable string like this:

self.assertEqual(self.driver.find_element_by_xpath("html/body/example").text,"and then comes “special text” in the UI".decode('utf-8'), msg=None)

and it magically worked.

If you just typed some characters inside an Android app and the keyboard will not go away, click on the hardware BACK button and it will go away.

I have not been able to find the resolution to this issue anywhere. Finally figured it out.

On multiple Android devices I was able to set the manual proxy simply by accessing the advanced network settings and saving the new values. However, on several Androids, the Save button was always grayed out.

All you need to do is populate the Wifi network password field as well. Then the Save button will not be grayed out. So each time you need to update these, first populate the password field, then change the proxy settings, IP, port etc. and it just might resolve your issue.