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alejandro_canos
Occasional Contributor
11 years ago

regular Expressions in TestComplete

Good afternoon am Alejandro Canosa I have a number of concerns with regular expressions in TestComplete, I use the following method to evaluate aqString.StrMatches regular expressions (regexp, Zip) an...
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    Adrian_Tankard
    11 years ago
    Hi,

    Could you please post a sample of the code that is failing and an example of the data that is failing.  It would be most helpful at investigating the issue.
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altus_nel
Contributor
11 years ago
Hey Alejandro,



I seem to come to the same conclusion (aqString.StrMatches returning false) as you. Bizzare, seems more complex expressions confuses the function :).



You can perhaps use a workaround for this (see below)?



Something like:



//JavaScript


var str = "15121";


 


var isNumber;


//This will search for digits [0-9] from the begining of the string (^) till the end ($)


//that has length 3,4,5 {3,5}


var pattern = "^[0-9]{3,5}$";

var regexpattern = new RegExp(pattern); 

//exec returns null for no match, otherwise the string

var res = regexpattern.exec(str);


//inspect

isNumber = (res != null ? true : false);



//return

return isNumber




Regards,

Altus