How to find a label with some special characters

[SamuelPinho]

I have an Input field that can have a label with any characters.

An example would be: This is a custom label ~!@#$%^&*()_+=-[]{}\|:",./? UID.

I'm trying to find this label by doing something like this:

const customLabel = 'This is a custom label ~!@#$%^&*()_+=-[]{}\|:",./? UID'
cy.contains('label', customLabel);

But this code is unable to locate the label giving me the following error:

What I'm trying to find: 'This is a custom label ~!@#$%^&*()+=-[]{}|:",./? UID'
What Cypress is trying to find: 'This is a custom label ~!@#$%^&()+='-[']{}|:",./? UID'

They both different and I'm not sure why

[jjhelguero]

Are you sure there is text containing that string or is it the value?

[SamuelPinho]

Yes, here's the screenshot:

And it's weird that the error that Cypress is giving me is that it says that it's a unrecognized expression and not that it didn't find the element on the screen

[jjhelguero]

Hmm, I might be reading the error wrong. Have you tried using regexp with escaped characters?

[SamuelPinho]

Do you mean, passing a regexp with escaped characters on the contains function?