Regular Expressions¶
Purpose¶
A regular expression is a sequence of characters that describes how to construct a set of strings. It is composed of character literals and special characters. Each character literal represents one single character (such as "a", "b", "C", "1"). The special characters can represent a character, many characters, or a choice about how to select characters.
Usage¶
In Rapise, you must prepend regular expressions with the string regex:. So the regular expression describing all strings would be: regex:.*
There are three uses for regular expressions in Rapise: (1) in Object Locators, (2) in action overriding code, (3) in Custom Libraries.
Examples¶
In Object Locator to match a dynamic Window Title:
regex:.*Microsoft Dynamics NAV matches any Window Title ending with Microsoft Dynamics NAV, e.g.
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or
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