Parsing a string and counting characters.

Thanks, Joe! Your solution is even better, because it doesn't have external depenencies.

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joseph_michaud wrote:

Helen's reply got me thinking... Could we just use the powers of JavaScript directly?

 

function test()
{
  var str = "type1=12345678901234567890111&type2=3.0.00&type3=1234567811";
  var strarr = str.split('&');
  for (var i = 0; i < strarr.length; i++) {
    var typearr = strarr[i].split('=');
    Log.Message(strarr[i]);
    switch (typearr[0]) {
    case 'type1':
      Log.Message("TYPE1: length = " + typearr[1].length);
      break;
    case 'type2':
      Log.Message("TYPE2: length = " + typearr[1].length);
      break;
    case 'type3':
      Log.Message("TYPE3: length = " + typearr[1].length);
      break;
    default:
      Log.Message("unrecognized type");
      break;
    }
  }
}

produces

 

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JB -

It's supposed to let you reset your delimiter, so try what I have with the & and see if it works for you.  I am using an old version of TestComplete so maybe it's not implemented for me.

Helen, Joseph -

The original post had a request to try to do this in keyword tests.  Would you really put all that code in a code snippet?  Also, do you have an idea why resetting the delimiter didn't work for me?

It looks that way in my example but when I ran it myself, the delimiter would always be |

I changed from & to | in my test so I could see if the rest of the stuff worked.

What version are you using?

Tried that and it worked for me.  Let's continue this offline.

If I absolutely had to use a keyword test, then the following expressions could be used to pick out the lengths of the three types

KeywordTests.Test1.Variables.Var1.split('&')[0].split('=')[1].length
KeywordTests.Test1.Variables.Var1.split('&')[1].split('=')[1].length
KeywordTests.Test1.Variables.Var1.split('&')[2].split('=')[1].length

As for not being able to set the delimiter... I think you *are* setting the delimiter properly but your example shows you calling GetLength() rather than GetListLength().

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