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Innovation
New Contributor
8 years ago

Verifying .Pix Files with variable Parts

Hello Smartbearcommunity,   i'm trying to verifying 2 .pix files and in thispix files the "id" is changing. How do i get my script working? Example PIX File File1 <? xml version"1.0! encoding="...
Innovation's avatar
Innovation
New Contributor
8 years ago

I'm sorry for my bad explanation i was in a hurry yeserday.

I didn't know that .pix was common for images and i'm trying to compare XML data.

The problem is that i don't know what i have to insert in this line

regEx.Expression := '(?i)\d{1,2}.\d{1,2}.\d{2,4}\s\d{1,2}:\d{2}:\d{2}\w{2}';

No matter what i try i end up with the result that the files are equal even when they are not equal.

 

There are 2 parts where the files differ, the ID and the Date.

Can you give me an example how i can get the script to ignore the ID wich i showed in the previous post ?

  • tristaanogre's avatar
    tristaanogre
    Esteemed Contributor
    8 years ago

    Actually, what I would do is not use a pure file to file comparison like that at all.  These are XML files and you can actually compare node to node and, if there are nodes you don't want to compare, simply skip them.  

     

    I'd write a routine (and I don't have time to do it right now) that would utilize MSXML.DOMDocument objects to grab the two XML files into DOM objects.  Then, you could write a function that would grab a particular child node from one file, grab the related one from the other file, and compare the contents to see if they match.  This even has the advantage that you can target particular sections and compare them rather than having to do the whole file.  For example, your application performs a process that updates only 2 or 3 nodes within the XML file.  Rather than having to compare the whole file, just check those 2 or 3 nodes.

    There's a good bit of documentation out there online on how to utilize the MSXML.DOMDocument objects to compare XML files.

    If you don't want to go the route of a customly created routine, you could always use XMLCheckpoints.

  • AlexKaras's avatar
    AlexKaras
    Champion Level 3
    8 years ago

    Hi,

     

    Regex for the AppVersion can be like this:

    (?-g)AppVersion="(.+)"

    i.e.: search for anything after 'AppVersion' that is enclosed in quotes.

     

    Likewise, the regex for the ID may be like this:

    (?-g)ID="(.+)"

     

    And, instead of

    regEx.Replace(fileText1, '<ignore>');

    something like

    regEx.Replace(fileText1, 'AppVersion="<ignore>"');

    and

    regEx.Replace(fileText1, 'ID="<ignore>"');

    should be used.