strMatches fails with multi-line string

[James Shepherd]

I would expect the following .test to output "Notice: et even more"

set %Text% <<EOF
Line: Value
More: And More
Yet even more
EOF

if strMatches %Text% Y(.*)
 Notice %Return:Group:1%
else
 Notice FAIL
end

But it outputs "Notice: FAIL"

It looks like strMatches doesn't work with multi-line strings.

[edA-qa (eda-qa)]

strMatches is a complete string match, even in the multi-line case. Thus your check for matching should be expected to fail.

You can however use the "strContains" function which should do what you want. Though you may want to also match beginning of line/end-of-line:

if strContains %Text% ^Y(.*)$
 Notice %Return:Group:0%
else
 Notice FAIL
end

Be aware that <<EOF preserves leading space on the lines, so Y must be the first character here. Also, I've output group 0 instead of 1, since group 1 is the string "et even more".

[James Shepherd (j-shepherd)]

Oh I see. The java meaning of match, rather than the perl or php one :-)

[edA-qa (eda-qa)]

Well, in Java by default I think it'd also do the match you want. In TestPlan though, for convenience since you deal with a lot of multi-line input, the moment multiline input is detected it switchs to multiline mode. I think both PHP and PERL have such a matching mode.