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New Contributor

8 years ago

Basic test step with regex (regular expression) is not working

I want to start using the test cases for my web services. I created my first one and implemented a very simple regex and it's not working. I know how to use regex and this expression in my attached i...

PaulMS
8 years ago
The Contains Assertion with regular expression seems to assert a match of the entire response message. You can add .* wildcards at the start and end of your specified token as in the online help example.

https://www.soapui.org/functional-testing/validating-messages/getting-started-with-assertions.html#3-Common-Assertions

toddo

New Contributor

Yes, that seems to work when I used the wild card. There are some odd things about the regex. For example, I normally look for a space like this --> \s

But when I try that, it didn't work. Maybe smart bear has slightly different functionality for their flavor of regex.