how do i create random letters in selenium ide? - random

Question

I'm not an expert in Selenium IDE, I want to declare an array in Selenium IDE HTML and call it in the next line.
<tr>
<td>storeEval</td>
<td>new Array('en','de','da','cs','fi','fr','it','ja','ko','nl','no','pl','pt','ru','sv','tr')</td>
<td>myArray</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>type</td>
<td>FieldName</td>
<td>${myArray}</td>
</tr>
Thanks

Answer 1

Code below will randomly select item from array and type it to element with id=FieldName:
<tr>
<td>storeEval</td>
<td>var chars = 'en de da cs fi fr it ja ko nl no pl pt ru sv tr'.split(' '); str = chars[Math.floor(Math.random() * chars.length)];</td>
<td>item</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>type</td>
<td>FieldName</td>
<td>${item}</td>
</tr>
To access item from your initial array (lets say second item), you can add one more command:
<tr>
<td>storeEval</td>
<td>new Array('en','de','da','cs','fi','fr','it','ja','ko','nl','no','pl','pt','ru','sv','tr')</td>
<td>myArray</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>getEval</td>
<td>storedVars['item'] = storedVars['myArray'][2]</td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>type</td>
<td>FieldName</td>
<td>${item}</td>
</tr>
You can pass random int in range [0 .. length_of_array] to storedVars['myArray'][randomInt] to retrieve values randomly.