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mathotp
Occasional Contributor
6 years ago
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regular expressions not working in javascript using clickItem

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.pnlClien...
  • AlexKaras's avatar
    AlexKaras
    6 years ago

    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.*)/);

     

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mathotp
Occasional Contributor

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

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AlexKaras
Champion Level 3
6 years ago

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.*)/);

 

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    mathotp
    Occasional Contributor
    6 years ago

    Thank Alex taht seemed to do the trick ;)