In your example, the only meta characters that need escaping are the square brackets, which are used to introduce character classes.
Quotes are not special. == It might be useful to be able to specify that a string is to be treated literally, not as a regular expression This might save a bit of hassle sometimes. Perhaps add another checkbox - or two, allowing for case-blind compares. These would mean that the Assertion was to use ordinary Java string compares. S. -----Original Message----- From: Jordi Salvat i Alabart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 December 2003 15:19 To: JMeter Users List Subject: Re: Hassles generating text assertions Hi Sonam, I've been testing. The Response Assertion seems to be handling escaped spaces, quotes, brackets, etc. nicely. In any case, if it doesn't, it's a bug, since the org.apache.oro.text.regex package description says: "Any other backslashed character matches itself." Which means that quotemeta is perfectly appropriate for your purpose (although it tends to escape too much: it essentially escapes all non-alphanumeric characters). Please double-check your tests. -- Salut, Jordi. En/na Sonam Chauhan ha escrit: > Hi - > > I have run into problems getting JMeter to do text assertions on certain > HTML text. > > I want JMeter response assertions to ensures HTML snippets like the one > below occur in the HTTP response: > -------------------------------------------------------- > <input type="hidden" name="NEW_ITEM-DESCRIPTION[1]" value = "Leader ohp > trolley"> > -------------------------------------------------------- > > This requires that things like the quotation mark ('"'), be escaped. JMeter > uses Jakarta-ORO which implements Perl-compatible regular expressions (doco: > http://jakarta.apache.org/oro/index.html). So I figured using Perl > quotemeta could escape the text properly: > -------------------------------------------------------- > bash$ perl -le 'print quotemeta q/<input type="hidden" > name="NEW_ITEM-DESCRIPTION[1]" value = "Leader ohp trolley">/' > -------------------------------------------------------- > > That gave me: > -------------------------------------------------------- > \<input\ type\=\"hidden\"\ name\=\"NEW_ITEM\-DESCRIPTION\[1\]\"\ value\ \=\ > \"Leader\ ohp\ trolley\"\> > -------------------------------------------------------- > > This worked to an extent. The problem is that Jakarta-ORO/JMeter does not > like certain things Perl quotemeta does -- like the escaping of spaces ('\ > '), or escaping square brackets ('\[1\]'). > > Can anyone let me know a good way to escape the HTML snippets above so that > JMeter can use it in a response assertions? > > With regards, > Sonam Chauhan --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
