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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...
  • simonaferrara's avatar
    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)

     

Marsha_R's avatar
Marsha_R
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4 years ago

Is this what you are trying to validate?  That both these conditions are true

  • ID:n= exists at a specific column no matter what follows it
  • ;i= exists at a specific column no matter what follows it

 

I would do it in two separate checks and check that they are both true

aqString.Find(InputString, SubString, StartPosition, CaseSensitive)

something like

 

if

(

(aqString.Find("Result: Id: n=3;i=916169501","Id: n",7)) <> -1

and

(aqString.Find("Result: Id: n=3;i=916169501",";i=",10)) <> -1

)

then

   do string ok stuff

else

   do string not ok stuff