I think you need the scan to terminate on the ) symbol by adding a $ to the end of your pattern, e.g. ".+\(.+\)$"
On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM Mark Kozak <mark.ko...@adeptus-cs.com> wrote: > Hello folks. > > > > I am reaching out for a sanity check please. > > I am seeing a regular expression behavior that was driving me mad, but may > actually be a bug? > > > > The example below is a simplified version for illustration: > > > > The goal is to check that a line of text starts with a string and ends > with another string in parenthesis. > > Using the following data and subsequent schema, only the first line should > pass validation. So I expect to see 5 validation failures. However only > the last line is failed. > > Then just to keep things interesting, copy the first line to the end of > the file, and then there are no validation failures at all. > > It appears that the assertion is being checked against only the last > element in the sequence. Is that the intended behavior? > > I have tried this with 3.6 and 3.9 and get the same results both times. > > > > aaa(111) > > bbb > > (222) > > ccc(333)XXX > > () > > (444) > > > > > > <element name="sample"> > > <complexType> > > <sequence dfdl:separator="%NL;" > > > <element name="line" dfdl:lengthKind="delimited" type="xs:string" > dfdl:occursCountKind="implicit" maxOccurs="unbounded" > > > <annotation> > > <appinfo source="http://www.ogf.org/dfdl/";> > > <dfdl:assert testKind="pattern" > failureType="recoverableError" > > testPattern=".+\(.+\)" /> > > </appinfo> > > </annotation> > > </element> > > </sequence> > > </complexType> > > </element> > > > > > > Thank you for the help. > > > > Mark Kozak > > Director of Engineering > > Adeptus Cyber Solutions > > Adeptus-CS.com > > >
