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simonaferrara
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4 years ago
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Search for a substring using wildcards

Hi,   I would like to search a substring within a string that contains some values that change at runtime. My string is, for example: "Result Id: n=3;i=916169501" I'm not interested to check the...
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    simonaferrara
    4 years ago

    I post the solution found with the help of mikef , that works!

     

    Using https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/reference/program-objects/aqstring/strmatches.html to compare the structure, using regex. For example : 

     

      inputString = "Result Id: n=3sdfsdf;i=9161634395asdf01"
  
  returnValue = aqString.StrMatches("Result Id: n=.*;i=.*",inputString)
  
  Log.Message(returnValue)

     

simonaferrara's avatar
simonaferrara
Frequent Contributor
4 years ago

I post the solution found with the help of mikef , that works!

 

Using https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/reference/program-objects/aqstring/strmatches.html to compare the structure, using regex. For example : 

 

  inputString = "Result Id: n=3sdfsdf;i=9161634395asdf01"
  
  returnValue = aqString.StrMatches("Result Id: n=.*;i=.*",inputString)
  
  Log.Message(returnValue)