How to select text within an element using Xpath

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Hi,
I am building a webscraper that has the following code:
Ginger Ray - #PAM-502
The XPath I currently have is //span[@class=“supplier-search”]
However, the data of interest is located after the #. Is it possible to specify this in Xpath, so only PAM-502 is output?

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Hi Emilio,

I’m not totally sure I understand the ask here. Would you be able to link the website you’re trying to extract from and specify exactly what the data of interest is?

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Hi Emilio,

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Best,
Alyssa

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Hi @Emilio_Bronte
If I understood your question correctly, the crawler retrieves the text “Ginger Ray - #PAM-502” but you only want “PAM-502”, and you want to achieve this using only Xpath.
Is the whole text within ?

If you are using Yext’s connector, I would leave it as-is and transform the text within the connector.