From: Paul Lutus <nospam@...>
Date: 2006-11-02T21:35:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Watir and regexp

asmir.biscevic@gmail.com wrote:

> We want to test a value given in a text field with a regular
> expression. We are trying to do it this way:
> 
> @browser.text_field(:name,"vareeier").set("123456789")
> @browser.text_field(:name,"vareeier").value.should_equal(/[0-9]{9}/)
> 
> This is not working for us. We also tried using
> @browser.text_field(:name,"vareeier").value.matches(/[0-9]{9}/)
> @browser.text_field(:name,"vareeier").verify_contains(/[0-9]{9}/)
> 
> None of these work.

Define "work". Have you take the step of creating a test regex that must
succeed, in order to eliminate syntax errors other than regex ones?

> Help....

I can't help you with any Watir syntax issues that may be present, but the
regex would be better written as:

/^\d{9}$/

This assures that nine consecutive digits are all that is present in the
field. Your original regex only assured that nine consecutive digits were
present somewhere in a field that could contain an arbitrary amount of
other data.

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Paul Lutus
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