RE: The Regular Expressions Extractor problem

["Liao, Avian" <al...@enporion.com>]

Hi, Kyle, 

Now, I know what confused me and my computer. Thanks for clearing that out.
And hope it won't happen to other people.
Avian

-----Original Message-----
From: Kyle McAbee [mailto:k.mcabee@treev.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 10:20 AM
To: Liao, Avian
Subject: RE: The Regular Expressions Extractor problem


Dear Avian Liao:

Maybe I am not clear, either!

Your regular expression for page X is:
> Regular Expression: _processid2=(\w*-\w*-\w*-\w*-\w*)

You describe page X this way:
> In this X page, ... it looks like '_processid= 3FFBE12D-09E1-E860-91E4-46CF365BCC46'

"_processid2" in the regular expression cannot match "_processid" in the web page. 

"_processid2" does not match "_processid".
"_processid2" matches "_processid2".

Maybe you are confusing the search pattern in the regular expression with the reference name. If you use Reference Name of "_processid2", you do not have to use "_processid2" in the Regular Expression. The Regular Expression can be any regular expression.

Sincerely yours,

Kyle

-----Original Message-----
From: Liao, Avian [mailto:aliao@enporion.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 12:38 PM
To: Kyle McAbee
Subject: RE: The Regular Expressions Extractor problem


Hi, Kyle, 

I test my regular expression ouotside of Jmeter, and it works fine. Maybe I did not clear up my question. In my case, in n page, I use regular expression to extract the processid that hide in the n page, and in this page, there is only one set of data that will match this regular expression, and it looks like '_processid = 3FFBE12D-09E3-A044-1A30-139809D60451'. 
When I continue my test, and execute in X page, I have to extract the exact set of data, but the id is not the same. In this X page, the name still called _processid, it looks like '_processid= 3FFBE12D-09E1-E860-91E4-46CF365BCC46'. I am prettry sure that _processid in N and X page are not the same (I use badboy to confirm this), but the data are identical, so that is why I use same regular expression in both page, and just name the regular expression of x page "_processid2", since I need to serperate these two values. That is what I thought. Hope it will help clear up.

Thanks!

AL

-----Original Message-----
From: Kyle McAbee [mailto:k.mcabee@treev.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2004 8:48 AM
To: Liao, Avian
Subject: RE: The Regular Expressions Extractor problem


Dear Avian Laio:

Your second regular expression contains "_processid2", not "_processid". Does the second web page really contain "_processid2="?

_processid2=(\w*-\w*-\w*-\w*-\w*)

When I have a problem like this, I test the regular expression outside of JMeter in a regular expression tester:

* If it does not work, then I can rewrite the regular expression.

* If it does work, then I examine the Regular Expression Extractor settings. The Regular Expression Extractor documentation is hard to understand, in my opinion. I am working on a rewrite that I hope to submit to the developers.

Sincerely yours,

Kyle

-----Original Message-----
From: Liao, Avian [mailto:aliao@enporion.com]
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2004 8:21 PM
To: Kyle McAbee
Subject: The Regular Expressions Extractor problem



Hi, Kyle, 

If you have time, do you mind to look at my question, if you don't, just skip my question, still appreciate your time. 
I thought you may know how to fix this question.

***What I trying to do is using Jmeter's Post-Processors (Regular Expression Extractor) to catch the desired data, and I use:

Reference Name:_processid
Regular Expression:_processid=(\w*-\w*-\w*-\w*-\w*)
Template: $1$
Match No. : 0

It works perfectly when the page only contains one set of this data (e.g .3FFBE12D-9535-872D-F441-C7CB6CF754B8).

However, in another page, I am intend to catch the same set of data, so I use Regular Expression Extractor again, and I input almost the exact info in the fields:

Reference Name:_processid2
Regular Expression:_processid2=(\w*-\w*-\w*-\w*-\w*)
Template: $1$
Match No. : 0

The only different in this page is that there are more than one set of data that will match this regular expressions. I guess it might be the reason that regular expression did not catch anything.Do you have any experiences? 
Again, thank you very much....

I have been stuck with this issue for a day, so just try to find any help that may be available. 

AL



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