How to use regex in XPath contains function

Question

I would like to match the following text sometext12345 text using the below regex    I m using this in one of my selenium tests   String expr        contains  id   sometext 0-9   text      driver findElement By xpath expr      It doesn t seem to work though  Can somebody help

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In Robins s answer ends-with is not supported in xpath 1 0 too   Only starts-with is supported    So if your condition is not very specific  You can Use like this which worked for me      starts-with  id  sometext   and contains  name   text

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If you re using Selenium with Firefox you should be able to use EXSLT extensions  and regexp test    Does this work for you   String expr        regexp test  id   sometext 0-9   text      driver findElement By xpath expr

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XPath 1 0 doesn t handle regex natively  you could try something like      starts-with  id   sometext   and ends-with  id    text       as pointed out by paul t      boolean number substring-before substring-after  id   sometext      text      could be used to perform the same check your original regex does  if you need to check for middle digits as well   In XPath 2 0  try      matches  id   sometext d  text

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