This regex fails in cucumber but passes in regex tool

Asked Feb 26 '19 at 06:56

Active Feb 26 '19 at 07:33

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I have a statement

Scenario Outline
@Given I have a coupon for "<campaign_name>"

Examples:
|Hotel|
|Movie|
|Shopping|

For this statement I have regex as:

@Given("^I have a coupon for \\\"([^\\\\\\\"]*)\\\"$")

I want to test this statement on popular online regex tool https://regexr.com/ Where it is failing, how come it is passing in Cucumber?

Also, if I do reverse i.e. a regex passing in tool, then it fails in Cucumber.

If I use

@Given("^I have a coupon for [^]*$") it will fail.

I want to write good, optimum, readable, short regex, for that I am dependent on tool. Please check, what am I doing wrong?

Update: using quotes not skipping them
It also give error

edited Feb 26 '19 at 07:33

asked Feb 26 '19 at 06:56

paul

You don't need to unnecessarily escape a doublequote and can simply write your regex like this `^I have a coupon for "([^"]*)"$` [Demo](https://regex101.com/r/QN6sIk/1) – Pushpesh Kumar Rajwanshi Feb 26 '19 at 07:04
I have tried , it is giving error. See screenshot attached. – paul Feb 26 '19 at 07:31
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You need to escape `"` as `\"` for Java at least. Use this escaped version of string `"^I have a coupon for \"([^\"]*)\"$"` – Pushpesh Kumar Rajwanshi Feb 26 '19 at 07:35
`"` is not a special regex metacharacter, you should not escape it. – Wiktor Stribiżew Feb 26 '19 at 07:42
@PushpeshKumarRajwanshi It worked. [at]Wiktor Got it. – paul Feb 26 '19 at 07:47

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