How to use regular expression in a script

Shwetha

Hi Narayan,

Please let me know how to use regular expression for this case:

_click(_link("linkname[2]"));

The number in the square braces is changing sometimes it 1 or 2 or 3.

Actually ' linkname ' is the name of the link which I have to click, in some places of application it is concatenated with number like [1] or [2] or [3].

so I should send the link name in a variable and concate with this changing number,

var $LINKName = " linkname ";

var $linkToClick = $LINKName +"["+[0-9]];

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>I have tried this expression,but its not working

_click(_link($linkToClick));

narayan

Shweta,

Is the link itself named linkname[2] in your application or is Sahi identifying it as linkname[2] while the link is just linkname?
If it is the first case, you can use

_click(_link(/linkname\[[0-9]\]/));
// Note the use of forward slashes to start and end regular expressions in javascript.

If you want to concatenate a string and then do the same thing

var $LINKName = " linkname";
var $linkToClick = $LINKName +"\\[[0-9]\\]";
_click(_link(new RegExp($linkToClick)));
// Note the use of new RegExp(str) to convert a string to a regular expression.

Regards,
Narayan

Shwetha

Narayan,
Thank You. But the link does not appear like that. SAHI is recognizing the link as _link("_linkname[1]") with the no. being different every time. I tried the above suggested two methods. But it is not recognized. Please help.

madhu

Hi Narayan,
I could you please let me know how to use the regular expression in SAHI

var $sAcctType = "*Savings*" //The constant value is "Savings" at run time it was " 12312312 Savings"
_setSelected(_select("listAccounts"), $sAcctType );

Above statement doesnt work
Thanks in advance

narayan

Madhu,

Seems like there is a bug in Sahi which is preventing use of RegExp in _setSelected.
To fix it,

Open sahi/htdocs/spr/concat.js

Look for

Sahi.prototype._setSelected

3 lines below that you will see

if (typeof val == "string"){

Change it to

if (typeof val == "string" || val instanceof RegExp){

Restart Sahi, and clear your browser cache or force refresh the page.

Then you can use:

_setSelected(_select("listAccounts"), /.*Savings/);

I will add the fix in the next build. Thanks for pointing it out.

Regards,
Narayan

madhu

It works great thanks Narayan [:)].