Hi,

I have some text like:

some text and more text etc...
<td></td>
<td>JMETER0123</td>
<td>Foo</td>
<td>Bar</td>
<td>Baz</td>
<td>30-May-2008</td>
<td><a href="/project/userdetails.action?userID=42966">View Details</a></td>
<td><input type="checkbox" name="selectedUser" value="42966" /></td></tr></tbody></table><span class="pagebanner">12 items found, displaying all items.</span><span class="pagelinks"><strong>1</strong></span>   
more text and more text etc
 

Wherever I find the text JMETER followed by a numeric value (JMETER[0-9] ), I want to get the very next value of the userID (or the selectedUser value, whichever is easier because it is the same value). So in this case I want the value "42966", without the quotes. I have found posts on the net addressing this exact problem (see http://regexadvice.com/forums/thread/43794.aspx) but for some reason it doesn't do what it says!

I currently have: (?s)JMETER[0-9].*?userID=.+?"

which gives me:

JMETER0123</td>
<td>Foo</td>
<td>Bar</td>
<td>Baz</td>
<td>30-May-2008</td>
<td><a href="/project/userdetails.action?userID=42966">View Details</a></td>
<td><input type="checkbox" name="selectedUser" value="42966"

I also tried the exact example in that post mentioned above and it does the same thing.

I have tested this in The Regex Coach (http://www.weitz.de/regex-coach/) and ultimately want to use this in JMeter's Regular Expression Extractor (http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/usermanual/component_reference.html#Regular_Expression_Extractor).

Can anyone help? That would be great!

Thanks!

-pea

Thanks ddrudik!

Once again, that did not work for me :(

It gave me back:

JMETER0123</td>
<td>Foo</td>
<td>Bar</td>
<td>Baz</td>
<td>30-May-2008</td>
<td><a href="/project/userdetails.action?userID=42966

I heard that regex might behave differently in some environments? It did not work in my Regex Coach and also not in JMeter (JMeter is a Java application if that helps?)

Look in Match Group #1 - it will contain the value you asked for.

Susan 

Hi Susan,

Thanks for replying! I'm afraid that didn't work either :'(

I've uploaded the relevant screenshots to show what I did:

http://misterpea.googlepages.com/regularExpressionScreenshot.png

http://misterpea.googlepages.com/parametersWithRequest.png

I tried group 0, 1, 2. With group #0 I get as mentioned in my last post. With any other group number I get the actual parameter name sent with the request (I.e. "${userID}" without the quotes).

Any suggestions?

GOT IT WORKING!!! Yay!!!

Thanks Susan, I just missed out on doing something. So I did exactly what you said (as seen in the screenshots) and it worked.

Thanks heaps!

- pea