Is there a way to see a partial string? (question)

[jrodriguez-sch]

What are you trying to achieve?

We are testing a UI which has dates and times being displayed to the user. The values are being displayed locally, so for folks in different time zones the values will show different times and zones though the actual date is always the same (we're all in the US).

I'd like to be able to have a method like see() but where it doesn't break if there is more text there than is expected. Maybe some way to specify a partial string either with a flag or a regex or a different method or something.

What do you get instead?

For example, if the value being displayed to me is "Jan 19, 2023 at 10:34am PST", I'd like to use see('Jan 19, 2023') and have that pass without failing and telling me that there is also 'at 10:34am PST' in there too. That part is guaranteed not to be the same for every engineer or on the servers (also US based) where these tests will run for real.

Kind of like a "just tell me if the text I'm asking you to check for is there, don't worry about other stuff I didn't ask about" method.

(I tried to add a label of Question to this "issue" but that's not a thing I guess)

[StanislavGrishaev]

@jrodriguez-sch there is no existing method to check partial string AFAIK
as a workaround you can grab text from element and, split them and then check, smth like this :

let text = await I.grabTextFrom(locator)
let assert = require('assert');
assert.equal('Jan 19, 2023', text.split(' at')[0]);

[DavertMik]

By default see matches partial string
Anyway, more contexts needed to understand the issue