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aa1
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6 years ago

Regex

Hi,   I was trying to implement something similar to the following https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/scripting/regular-expressions.html   var regEx3 = /;(\r\n)+function/g; var...
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aa1
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Hi Wamboo,

 

Thank you for the reply. I need it for automation script. I am using test complete to compare two html files - actual vs. expected. But there are some of the lines that I would like to ignore. So I want to use regex to find those lines and replace with a whitespace or some characteres so that the testcomplete passes the test. Right now I drilled down to very simple expression:

 

Example: If i try regex tester such as http://regexstorm.net/tester, , it shows 1 match but test complete says 0 match for the following so I am assuming regex dont work the same way as it normally does in test complete.

 

var test1 = "agent_1a2b3c_LangPref_0";
var regEx = "(?<=agent_).*?(?=_)";
var ppp = aqString.StrMatches(regEx,test1);

Test complete gives ppp = false which means it did not find any match. I dont seem to understand why. You have any ideas?

 

Regards,

aa

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aa1
Contributor
6 years ago

Hi again,

 

Furthermore, looks like testcomplete has its own non native regex methods. So I was trying those but that did not take me anywhere either.

 

For example:

var testString = "agent_1d74901d5";
var testRegex = /\agent\_\a/;
var re = new RegExp(testRegex);
var rr = re.test(testString);

I dont understand why rr is false. Is that not how you would specify the regex?

 

thanks

aa