RE: [Grinder-use] Repost : Regular expressions with Struts action errors --> Sorry for the terrible formatting

[<duv...@ya...>]

This seems to work :

 regex = re.compile(r'<span class="error">[\s*\S+\s*]+ </span>', re.M)

\T,


--- duv...@ya... wrote:

> 
> Joe,
> 
> If you look at the bootom of the initial mail you have the python script & 2 HTML's.
> 
> OK 
> my expression is composed of 3 parts of interrest that one can find in the HTML page :
> 1°. <span class="error">
> 2°.   Differenciating part
> 3°. </span>
> 
> The opening & closing tags (1 & 3) I can match.
> The middle part, is either :
>   _ Some text --> meaning there is has been a business exception : \S+
>   _ An unknown number of white space characters : \s* 
>     in python regular expression "parlence".
> 
> According to O'Reilly's book (pocket reference and Learning python) the re.M means that the
> parsing is done not against the whole text as a String (see below how I extract the html file
> content) but more in a line per line way.
> 
> Using :
>   regex = re.compile(r'<span class="error">\S+</span>', re.M)
> Does not react for both files (no matches)
> 
> Using 
>   regex = re.compile(r'<span class="error">.+</span>', re.M)
> Does react for both files (matches both)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> \T,
> 
> 
> --- Joe Heck <Joe...@do...> wrote:
> 
> > Without seeing the test data, it's a little hard to understand what
> > isn't working. If the <span> tags are split across a newline, that could
> > be a reason why its failing to match. You need to compile your RE with
> > re.M as well to take care of that scenario. 
> > 
> > Do you expect that there will NEVER be a newline or carriage return
> > between the span tags?
> > 
> > Sorry if I'm focusing on the wrong thing here - it's something that has
> > bit me in the past. As a diagnostic tool, I recommend matching the very
> > basic component and building up your regular expressions iteratively to
> > find out where it fails. That process has worked exceptionally well for
> > me.
> > 
> > -joe
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: gri...@li...
> > [mailto:gri...@li...] On Behalf Of
> > duv...@ya...
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 10:35 AM
> > To: gri...@li...
> > Subject: [Grinder-use] Repost : Regular expressions with Struts action
> > errors --> Sorry for the terrible formatting
> > 
> > 
> > Dear,
> > 
> > First of all, my apologies for the previous post which lost its
> > foramtting.
> > 
> > I am using the grinder and I need to validate no Action errors have been
> > put on the response I
> > fetch. There is a company wide style sheet so every body is using the
> > same <span
> > class="error"></span>
> > I am basically struggeling with the following needs. 
> > If there is anything but :
> >         space, tabs, line feeds, carriage return 
> > in between the two tags, the page contains a mistake.
> > I have tried dozens of regular expressions but they always seems to
> > fails in some scenario.
> > I came to the logical answer to be :
> >   regex = re.compile(r'<span class="error">\S+</span>', re.I)
> > 
> > IMHO this mean that the text I will inspect for matches will trigger if
> > there is any occurrence of
> > a non-white space character. It however does not behave the way I expect
> > it to.
> > Environment is jython (instead of pure python).
> > Incidently I tested against a gnu-python 2.2.1 and the result is the
> > same :(
> > 
> > 
> > Kind regards,
> > 
> > 
> > \T,
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
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