Hi Salvat and Prakash Thank you very much for your responses. From your responses I came to know that I have to know more about Regular Expressions before really trying them. Please suggest me a good book for Regular expressions. Thanks a lot Eda
Jordi Salvat i Alabart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: En/na Eda Srinivasareddy ha escrit: > Hi all > > > > Following are some of the doubts that we got while using for testing one of our > applications? > > > > 1. Is there any way to find out the last Match number of the template of a regular > expression instead of finding randomly by using 0 or by using some number say N to > find the Nth Match Number? > I don't think there is. Actually, I'm pretty sure there isn't. But probably you can devise a regexp that only matches on the correct entry. Keep reading. > > 2. Regular expression was not working proper in the case of the following code of a > multi selection list box. The code is > > > > > > <abc<abc<abc > > > > The regular expression details I used: > > Regular expression: \ > > Template: $1$ > > Match No: 1 > > Answer expected: abc > > Answer received: abc"><abc<abc<abc > It is working correctly. "*" is a "greedy" operator: it will match as much as you can. Your regexp says: find me something starting with and grab what's inbetween -- and that's what it's doing, only that it is the FIRST "> in your text. You may use "*?" instead: it's a "reluctant" operator. But it performs really poorly if there's no match or if the match is very long. Even beter: ]*)\"> And talking about greedy/reluctant operators, you can use this to match the last such option: .*]*)\"> Because .* is greedy, it will match everything it can -- and leave only the last Makes sense? > > My doubt here is, did I do any mistake? If there is no mistake, why it is not giving > only abc? > > > > Thanks > > Eda > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing
