Hi!I guess it is because the webtest regular expressions are greedy which means that an expression like .+ tries to match as many characters as possible and not just the next characters until the next \r\n as intended.
So if you change your expression to
<storeRegEx
description="Extract confirmation number i.e. PNR Ref"
text="BOOKING REFERENCE[^\r]+((\r\n)[^\r]+){2}\r\n[^>]*.([^<]+)"
group="3"
property="PNR_Ref" />
<echo message="PNR Ref of #{PNR_Ref}" />it works fine. I just checked QuickRex: I guess the main difference is the flag "DOTALL":In dotall mode, the expression . matches any character, including a line terminator.
So if you are not in dotall mode, your expression works fine, but webtest "is in" dotall mode.
BTW: you should really try to use xpath :-) Cheers, Ralf John and Pip wrote:
Hi, I am using this regex: BOOKING REFERENCE.+((\r\n).+){2}\r\n[^>]*.([^<]+) to extract the booking reference (EAMPXH) out of this page (simplified):<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> <html xmlns=" http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"; xml:lang="en" lang="en"><head> <title>Air New Zealand Bookings - Booking Confirmation</title></head><body><div id="main" style="display: block;"> <div class="i20"> <div class="panel"> <div class="paneltext">BOOKING REFERENCE</div> </div> <div class="indentcell"><div class="errorstyle" style="font-family: Arial,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">EAMPXH</div></div> </body></html>When I put the regex into QuickREx in eclipse, it highlight up to the end of the reference, and when I click through the groups at the bottom it gives me this as the 3rd group.However, when I do this in my WebTest script: <storeRegEx description="Extract confirmation number i.e. PNR Ref"text="BOOKING REFERENCE.+((\r\n).+){2}\r\n[^>]*.([^<]+)"group="3" property="PNR_Ref" /> <echo message="PNR Ref of #{PNR_Ref}" /> The result I get is just the ">" character. The results.xml shows: <step><parameter name="description" value="Extract confirmation number i.e. PNR Ref"/><parameter name="group" value="3"/> <parameter name="property" value="PNR_Ref"/> <parameter name="taskName" value="storeRegEx"/><parameter name="text" value="BOOKING REFERENCE.+((\r\n).+){2}\r\n[^>]*.([^<]+)"/><result> <completed duration="16"/> </result> </step> <step> <parameter name="message" value="PNR Ref of >"/> <parameter name="taskName" value="echo"/> <result> <completed duration="0"/> </result> </step> I turned logs to debug and the relevant output is:[storeRegEx] DEBUG (com.canoo.webtest.reporting.StepExecutionListener) - isToIgnore: [EMAIL PROTECTED], main [storeRegEx] DEBUG (com.canoo.webtest.reporting.StepResult) - In retrieveNestedText [storeRegEx] INFO (com.canoo.webtest.steps.Step) - >>>> Start Step: storeRegEx "Extract confirmation number i.e. PNR Ref" (8/10) [storeRegEx] DEBUG (com.canoo.webtest.steps.Step) - Executing storeRegEx "Extract confirmation number i.e. PNR Ref" (8/10) [storeRegEx] DEBUG (com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.WebResponseImpl) - No charset specified in header, trying to guess it from content [storeRegEx] DEBUG (com.gargoylesoftware.htmlunit.WebResponseImpl) - Nothing guessed, supposing that it is ISO-8859-1 [storeRegEx] DEBUG (com.canoo.webtest.steps.Step) - setWebtestProperty: PNR_Ref=> [null] [storeRegEx] DEBUG ( com.canoo.webtest.steps.Step) - Finished storeRegEx "Extract confirmation number i.e. PNR Ref" (8/10) [storeRegEx] DEBUG (com.canoo.webtest.steps.Step) - Completed Step: storeRegEx "Extract confirmation number i.e. PNR Ref" (8/10) [storeRegEx] DEBUG (com.canoo.webtest.steps.Step) - Step didn't produce results, no need to notifying listeners [storeRegEx] DEBUG (com.canoo.webtest.steps.Step) - <<<< Successful Step: storeRegEx "Extract confirmation number i.e. PNR Ref" (8/10)I've spent a good few hours trying things with no success so I'd be grateful if anyone could advise me on what to do as I'm starting to look pretty stupid here at work!Incidentally, the response from the invoke saved during the test is identical to the input file.Please don't suggest using storeXPath as an alternative as the reason I turned to storeRegEx was because of problems with storeXPath - I'll post that separately!I am using version R_1498 regards, John
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