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Issue with Regular expression with SAHI V 3.5
Akss004
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Hi Narayan,
I have found some issue with SAHI's latest release regarding Regular expression.
Some of my Scripts start getting failed while i have migrated my regression test scripts execution with latest release if SAHI.
For e.g.
_exists(_span("/03/01/2011 11:00:00.*04/01/2011 11:00:00.*/"));
this was running and still running with older version of SAHI . But this not running with SAHI V 3.5 and due to this many of Test Cases are Failed in result.
Is there any changes with Pattern changes with usage of regular expression????
I have found some issue with SAHI's latest release regarding Regular expression.
Some of my Scripts start getting failed while i have migrated my regression test scripts execution with latest release if SAHI.
For e.g.
_exists(_span("/03/01/2011 11:00:00.*04/01/2011 11:00:00.*/"));
this was running and still running with older version of SAHI . But this not running with SAHI V 3.5 and due to this many of Test Cases are Failed in result.
Is there any changes with Pattern changes with usage of regular expression????
Comments
Not sure how it worked with an older version. The forward slashes need escaping in the regular expression.
_exists(_span("/03\/01\/2011 11:00:00.*04\/01\/2011 11:00:00.*/"));
should be the right way.
Regards,
Narayan
Original Element:-
_span("03/01/2011 11:00:00 PM - 04/01/2011 11:00:00 PM - 0")
We were using following regular expression with SAHI's previous version.
_exists(_span("/03/01/2011 11:00:00.*04/01/2011 11:00:00.*/"));
and that was working fine.
And the same is not working with this new version and we have also tried with
_exists(_span("/03\/01\/2011 11:00:00.*04\/01\/2011 11:00:00.*/"));
and its still not working. Its giving some syntax error which means regular expression is not proper in above line.
ERROR:- [Exception] SyntaxError: missing ; before statement
Got Solution!!!!!
need to use...
_exists(_span("/03\\/01\\/2011 11:00:00.*04\\/01\\/2011 11:00:00.*/"));
Instead of....
_exists(_span("/03\/01\/2011 11:00:00.*04\/01\/2011 11:00:00.*/"));
Its working fine now.
Thanks for sharing this. Yes the back slashes need to be double escaped. Sorry that my solution may have misled you.
Regards,
Narayan