Locator with date in it - dynamic

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Hi folks,

how would you handle the below locator:
**/XCUIElementTypeStaticText[label == "Mar 31, 1999"]
//XCUIElementTypeStaticText[@name=“Mar 31, 1999”] - “Mar 31, 1999” part of locator is dynamic and can change anytime to another date.

I was thinking as below but not too sure:
//XCUIElementTypeStaticText[matches(@label, “^[A-Z][a-z]{2} \d{2}, \d{4}$”)]

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Just my opinion, but while a regular expression is nice and should work, it would be far better to ask the developers to add an accessibility id to that element.

https://medium.com/the-ministry-of-testing/adding-accessibility-identifiers-to-an-ios-app-c8e09d9c20f3

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start from third post and further -> Dynamic Locator in iOS App