Facing issue while creating Regular expression in Jmeter

Question

Please help me with building regular expression for the below response sequence

I have defined a variable PlanName = prod-p1 in testplan.

Response:

projectmanagement.plan.Plan%3A2992173879&amp;u8=1\" ext:qtip=\"prod-p1\">prod-p1<\/a>

Regular Expression build is:

ptc.projectmanagement.plan.Plan\%3A([^"]+)&amp\;u8=1\\" ext:qtip\=\\"${PlanName}\\">${PlanName}\<\\

Currently I am getting below error in Jmeter

jmeter.extractor.RegexExtractor: Error in pattern: ptc.projectmanagement.plan.Plan\%3A(.+?)\&amp\;u8=1\" ext:qtip\=\"prod-p1\">prod-p1\<\

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 16 '18 at 05:30

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You need to escape \ symbols with another backslash so amend your regular expression to look like:

projectmanagement.plan.Plan%3(.+?)&u8=1\\" ext:qtip=\\"prod-p1\\">prod-p1</a>

Demo:

References:

answered May 16 '18 at 05:30

Dmitri T

Apologies for the trouble. The RegEX that was posted by me is working. Actually issue is arising when i am trying to replace prod-p1 with a variable name that is defined at test plan. So RegEx is ptc.projectmanagement.plan.Plan\%3A([^"]+)&amp\;u8=1\\" ext:qtip\=\\"${PlanName}\\">${PlanName}\<\\ I have defined PlanName in testplan as prod-p1 Variable is getting replaces in regular expresion but i am getting below error jmeter.extractor.RegexExtractor: Error in pattern: ptc.projectmanagement.plan.Plan\%3A(.+?)\&amp\;u8=1\" ext:qtip\=\"prod-p1\">prod-p1\<\ – SURAJ SHARMA May 16 '18 at 09:11
Please refer updated question. Thanks and apologies once again – SURAJ SHARMA May 16 '18 at 09:18

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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Check the below regular expression and output:-

projectmanagement.plan.Plan%3A(.+?)&u8=1\\" ext:qtip=\\"prod-p1\\">prod-p1</a>

Hope it helps.

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

Community

answered May 16 '18 at 05:33

sunny_teo

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 16 '18 at 05:36

@Suraj

Use the following Regular Expression

projectmanagement\.plan\.Plan%3A(.+?)&u8=1\\" ext

In your response there are . and \ tokens , To match those characters append a backslash () so that JMeter matches the character . or \ literally.

For more information

You can use this website to test your regular expressions

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