Strange RegEx behaviour - AND/OR operator

Question

I am working with Software Robotics in Kofax Kapow Design Studio. This tooling supports, well... it says it supports standard regex.

I have a hardcoded variable called: RegEx (value hard set: EUR) In the evaluate tool I have the following RegEx set:

RegEx == ("EUR"|"USD"|"CAD")

The tool returns with this error:

Error in line 1 character 16: Illegal character '|

Isnt this the most basic and/or evaluation based on a hardcoded variable? Why is the tool returning this error?

Bad: https://i.stack.imgur.com/347jU.png

Good: https://i.stack.imgur.com/o0dWk.png

One line of code totally out of context is usually meaningless. You may want to expand your code sample to include variable declarations and surrounding lines of code. — Ken White, Aug 15 '17 at 11:35
Not sure what the quotes are doing there, but even if interpreted literally, the pattern should still be valid. I suggest that your code is broken, maybe you didn't even phrase that line correctly. — Tim Biegeleisen, Aug 15 '17 at 11:41
YES EUR|USD|CAT without quotation marks have been tested but not succesful. — floppy, Aug 15 '17 at 12:18
Are you sure `RegEx == ("EUR|USD|CAD")` does not work? Please share the tool documentation link. — Wiktor Stribiżew, Aug 15 '17 at 13:44

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 23 '18 at 14:24

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You need to use pattern matching instead. The following pattern should work fine and there is no need to use quotation marks for string matching in pattern matching option of Kofax Kapow

EUR|USD|CAD

answered Jan 23 '18 at 14:24

Sohail Ahmed

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 19 '19 at 08:53

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Expressions don't handle regex natively.

You can use replacePattern("EUR","^(EUR|USD|CAD)$","foobar") == "foobar"

foobar can be any string, even an empty string.

edited Mar 19 '19 at 08:53

karel

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answered Mar 19 '19 at 08:34

PolarFox

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Strange RegEx behaviour - AND/OR operator

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