sebb 2004/10/23 11:51:07
Modified: xdocs/usermanual Tag: rel-2_0 component_reference.xml
Log:
Clarify regex handling a bit
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1.87.2.19 +9 -7 jakarta-jmeter/xdocs/usermanual/component_reference.xml
Index: component_reference.xml
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RCS file: /home/cvs/jakarta-jmeter/xdocs/usermanual/component_reference.xml,v
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diff -u -r1.87.2.18 -r1.87.2.19
--- component_reference.xml 17 Oct 2004 17:24:27 -0000 1.87.2.18
+++ component_reference.xml 23 Oct 2004 18:51:07 -0000 1.87.2.19
@@ -1402,7 +1402,7 @@
to <b>match</b> the entire response, or if the response is only expected to
<b>contain</b> the
pattern. You can attach multiple assertions to any controller for additional
flexibility.</p>
<p>Note that the pattern string should not include the enclosing delimiters,
- i.e. use <b>Price: (\d+)</b> not <b>/Price: (\d+)/</b>.
+ i.e. use <b>Price: \d+</b> not <b>/Price: \d+/</b>.
By default, the pattern is in multi-line mode, which means that the "."
meta-character does not match newline.
In multi-line mode, "^" and "$" match the start or end of any line anywhere
within the string
- not just the start and end of the entire string.
@@ -1431,7 +1431,7 @@
</p>
HTTP Responses with statuses in the 4xx and 5xx ranges are normally
regarded as unsuccessful.
- The checkbox can be used to regard a 404 status as successful.
+ The "Ignore status" checkbox can be used to set the status
successful before performing further checks.
</property>
<property name="Pattern Matching Rules" required="Yes">Indicates whether
the text being tested
must CONTAIN or MATCH the test patterns. NOT may also be selected to
indicate the text
@@ -1786,10 +1786,12 @@
<properties>
<property name="Name" required="">Descriptive name for this element that is
shown in the tree.</property>
<property name="Reference Name" required="Yes">The name of the JMeter
variable in which to store the result. Also note that each group is stored as
[refname]_g#, where [refname] is the string you entered as the reference name, and #
is the group number, where group 0 is the entire match, group 1 is the match from the
first set of parentheses, etc.</property>
- <property name="Regular Expression" required="Yes">The regular expression
used to parse the response data.</property>
+ <property name="Regular Expression" required="Yes">The regular expression
used to parse the response data.
+ This must contain at least one set of parentheses "()" to capture a portion
of the string, unless using the group $0$.
+ </property>
<property name="Template" required="Yes">The template used to create a
string from the matches found. This is an arbitrary string
with special elements to refer to groups within the regular expression.
The syntax to refer to a group is: '$1$' to refer to
- group 1, '$2$' to refer to group 2, etc.</property>
+ group 1, '$2$' to refer to group 2, etc. $0$ refers to whatever the entire
expression matches.</property>
<property name="Match No." required="Yes">Indicates which match to use.
The regular expression may match multiple times.
<ul>
<li>Use a value of zero to indicate JMeter should choose a
match at random.</li>
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