regular expressions not working in javascript using clickItem

[mathotp]

Hi everyone,

I'm have some trouble with the regular expression in javascript while using clickItem.

I'm using this code: 

Aliases.HealthWin32.MainForm.MDIClient.frmLiveMessages.pnlClient.SplitterMain.TRzSplitterPane.pnlTreeview.tvMessages.ClickItem("regexp:\|Boîte de réception.*\|eHealth Box.*)");

and I'm always getting the following error:

The TreeView node 'regexp:' not found.

I did try a few thing but nothing does it.

Does anyone have any ideas, am I doing somthing wrong ? 

As per the documentation, what I'm doing seems to be correct.

thank you

Phlippe

[AlexKaras]

Hi,

> As per the documentation, what I'm doing seems to be correct.

Can you provide a link to the help topic?

I am not sure that regular expressions are supported to specify the full path to some tree view item.

[mathotp]

Hi Alex

here you go: 

https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/scripting/regular-expressions.html?q=regexp

[AlexKaras]

Well... Thank you for the link... It looks that it should be possible indeed...

Just two ideas to check:

a) Duplicate slashes in the regexp string. I.e.:

.ClickItem("regexp:\\|Boîte de réception.*\\|eHealth Box.*)");

b) Try to use JavaScript-specific syntax (see code sample in the "Specifying Variable Parts in Object Captions" paragraph of the referenced help topic). Like this:

.ClickItem(/\\|Boîte de réception.*\\|eHealth Box.*)/);

Does this help?

P.S. There seems to be non-paired closing parentheses in your code sample. May it be another problem?

.ClickItem("regexp:\|Boîte de réception.*\|eHealth Box.*)");

Shouldn't it be either

.ClickItem("regexp:\\|Boîte de réception.*\\|eHealth Box.*\\)");

or just

.ClickItem("regexp:\\|Boîte de réception.*\\|eHealth Box.*");

?

[mathotp]

Hi Alex,

the regex seems to be working but it can't find the TreeView, but this is another story 🙂

I use the following: 

Aliases.HealthWin32.MainForm.MDIClient.frmLiveMessages.pnlClient.SplitterMain.TRzSplitterPane.pnlTreeview.tvMessages.ClickItem(/\\|Boîte de réception.*\\|eHealth Box.*/);

Thank you for your help, and thank you for pointing out the ')' whicih was not escaped 😛

[mathotp]

Hi Alex,

The regular expression wasn't  working at all, I always had an error stating that it couldn't find the expression and the searched term was: '<This is blank>', empty string, which was not correct, so I ended up using wildcards instead

ClickItem("*eHealth Box*")

And this worked like a charm.

Thank again for your help

Phli

[AlexKaras · Accepted solution]

Hi Phil,

a) Thank you for the update;

b) Just recollected after reading your message that in some cases it was required to enclose regexp subexpressions with parenthesis in order they match (this is documented but I don't have a link at hand). So you may try this:

.tvMessages.ClickItem(/(\\|Boîte de réception.*)\\|(\\|eHealth Box.*)/);

[mathotp]

Thank Alex taht seemed to do the trick 😉