hi, thnx for the help on this last week ... i am able to see the variable name now, but my regular expression doesn't seem to be working. my test plan is laid out as follows:
-Test Plan - Thread Group -Recording cotoller -http cookie manager -http request -http request -http request -regex -http request (using the value from the regex) i'm trying to parse out the 60 from this html <input value="60" name="questionID" type="hidden"> using this as values to the regular expression extractor: reference name: questionID regular expression: input value="(\d+)" name="questionID" template: $1$ match no: 1 default value: failed > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 7:11 PM > To: JMeter Users List > Subject: Re: using the regular expression extractor to obtain > a form value > > > You could name your sampler something like: > > sampler_${questionID} > > Then, in the View Results Tree, the name of the sampler > appears, and you can see > what questionID got set to. I would recommend making your > default value something > more obvious, like "failed!" > > Also, shouldn't your regex look like this: > input value="(\d{1,3})" name="questionID" > > I'm not positive about that as I'm not an expert on regexes, > it's just something I noticed > about it - that maybe the whole value needs to be in the > parentheses? I know when I > do .*, I use (.*) rather than (.)*, which seems analogous. > > -Mike > > On 17 Jul 2003 at 13:53, luke cassady-dorion wrote: > > > using jmeter 1.9.RC3 (yesterday afternoon's source) on windows > > > > i'm trying to use the regular expression extractor to > obtain the value > > of a hidden form element, which i then use as part of a condition > > evaluation (using cyrus montakab's IfController > controller). i'm not > > sure why but for some reason it appears that the value i'm > extracting > > is not getting set. > > > > the form value looks like (where n 0<n<=999): > > > > <input value="n" name="questionID" type="hidden"> > > > > and the values i'm using with the regex extractor are > > > > reference name: questionID > > regular expression: input value="(\d){1,3}" name="questionID" > > template: $1$ > > match no: 0 > > default value: 1 > > > > then i have a series of IfController controllers using conditions > > along the lines of: ${questionID}==1 > > > > none of my IfControllers appear to execute, so i'm guessing > that the > > value is being set to something other than a digit. does > anyone have > > any ideas what could cause this? is there a way to debug > the process > > and see the value being set? > > > > thnx > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > -- > Michael Stover > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Yahoo IM: mstover_ya > ICQ: 152975688 > AIM: mstover777 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
