I would like to start new public investigation on LoadRunner regexp (regular expressions).
As you know, LoadRunner supports limited and 'light' regular expressions. These are special text flags of web_reg_save_param function to support 'light' LoadRunner regular expressions:
- /DIG interprets the pound sign (#) as a wildcard for a single digit.
For example, "te##xt" matches for "te23xt", and doesn't match for "text" and "te234xt". - /ALNUM
interprets the caret sign (^) as a wildcard for a single US–ASCII alphanumeric character.
There are three syntaxes: ALNUMIC to ignore case, ALNUMLC to match only lower case, and ALNUMUC to match only upper case.
For example, with ALNUMLC flag enabled, "te^^xt" matches for "tenext", and doesn't match for "teNext" and "teneoxt".
How to use real regular expressions in LoadRunner with C language?
Note: you can use real regexps with VBScript or Java. With standard LoadRunner C language this is not easy task!
I tried to use PCRE, but LoadRunner generated memory exception.
All I want is to process regexp templates, like:
- (\w+)@(\w+)\.(\w+)
- test.*
- ^91[a-z]$
- Windows(?=95 |98 |NT|XP)
- and so on
I think, such use of money will be honest. My readers helped me to earn them, and I plan to investigate them to resolve LoadRunner community question.
Well, if you have ideas on LoadRunner regular expressions, please describe them on your site or blog and send me the link.
Let's work together!
Waiting for your solutions & comments.
Thank you, LoadRunner beginners & professionals.
Updated (27/04/08):
LoadRunner RegExp - Challenge resolved
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Dmitry Motevich
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6 comments:
Here you go, Dmitry
Let me know if it works for you. If it does, please donate the money to the Free Software Foundation
Thank you, Charlie!
It seems, that your solution will works correctly. I need time to check.
You are the first person who sent the solution. That's why you have all chances to be a winner! :) Congratulations!
I will try to check your approach and I will write an article about it by the end of this week.
Regarding money, I will donate the sum ($52.25) to FSF and will send screenshots which confirm my donation.
Actually, I've never donated money to FSS. So, if link to donation be available, I will send it too.
Thank you again for cooperation!
Nice work Charlie. I abstracted a little to call a match function with one line from an action, using the example code you provided ... Which by the way works like a charm!
It would be good if we could take it one step further and manipulate the string buffer with search & replace functionality like we do in Perl ie. s/foo/bar/
But not sure if it's possible with GnuWin32. Thanks for posting the challenge Dmitry and shedding some light on this functionality :)
hi Dmitry,
Thanks for your posts related to loadrunner.These posts are very useful. i am requesting you to publish the post regarding framework in LoadRunner on your blog....
Thanks
Sridhar
Hi Dmitry,
I read your post on memory leak. i just want to know that memory leak is related to which component.i.e., system, app server, web server or database server.
what are the counters we need to consider to detect memory leak? Are these counters are component specific? if so, what are the counters of each and every component(mentioned above) that we need to consider while detecting memory leak?
Thanks & Regards
Sridhar
Hi Dmitry,
I have one confusion on concurrent users and simultaneous users.Plz describe the difference. If i want to do load test with 100 simultaneous users using LR what are the settings that i need to do? I know that the users we are using are concurrent users... plz clarify me on these two things.
Thanks & Regards
Sridhar
sridhar.k151@gmail.com
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