Hi, this is ugly. I don't see any reason why the Excel step should have own syntax for text comparison.
It would be good if someone could open an issue for that to avoid that it gets lost. Cheers, Marc. -- Web: http://www.efficient-webtesting.com Blog: http://mguillem.wordpress.com Hueneke, Immo wrote: > To sum up, it turned out that > > * the regex="true/false" attribute is currently not supported by > excelVerifyCellValue; therefore > * any regular expression that is used in an Excel cell value pattern match > needs to be surrounded with "/" delimiters > * any meta characters such as "/", "(" and ")" have to be escaped by > prefixing with "\" > * the whole regex has to be on one line. > > There are a couple of helpful resources for anyone developing regular > expressions and wanting to test them. I blogged about this at > http://aspsp.blogspot.com/2008/04/having-problems-with-string-matching.html > and someone attached a comment containing a link to the "Regex Coach", a > stand-alone program - http://www.weitz.de/regex-coach/. > _______________________________________________ > WebTest mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.canoo.com/mailman/listinfo/webtest > _______________________________________________ WebTest mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canoo.com/mailman/listinfo/webtest
