groovy with regular expression

Question

I try to learn groovy in SoapUI and now I have a problem with a regular expression in groovy.

I try build a regular expression in groovy to parse this text:

[EM6111949VA61=cfefcgjnjcidaiieodmlgfijaiknankpiodhghbagndikijiieicfhiiiojmfcfgjjkokkoilinbkkedcaafplikgjhomkhnopjhfhpjgkadalbkeenengiapjpeaiemokenfckjbeho; path=/bla/bla; secure; HttpOnly]

The result must be:

EM6111949VA61=cfefcgjnjcidaiieodmlgfijaiknankpiodhghbagndikijiieicfhiiiojmfcfgjjkokkoilinbkkedcaafplikgjhomkhnopjhfhpjgkadalbkeenengiapjpeaiemokenfckjbeho

My groovy source-code in SoapUI is:

erg='[EM6111949VA61=cfefcgjnjcidaiieodmlgfijaiknankpiodhghbagndikijiieicfhiiiojmfcfgjjkokkoilinbkkedcaafplikgjhomkhnopjhfhpjgkadalbkeenengiapjpeaiemokenfckjbeho; path=/bla/bla; secure; HttpOnly]'


def muster = /(?<=\[)[\w]+=[\w]+/

(erg ==~ muster).each {
log.info "Muster $it"
}

the log.info result is: Muster false

I try the text with the Expression::

(?<=\[)[\w]+=[\w]+ to http://www.regexe.de/

And the result is what I need,

EM6111949VA61=cfefcgjnjcidaiieodmlgfijaiknankpiodhghbagndikijiieicfhiiiojmfcfgjjkokkoilinbkkedcaafplikgjhomkhnopjhfhpjgkadalbkeenengiapjpeaiemokenfckjbeho

What is the correct Syntax in groovy

Thanks a lot for your answers

Michael

Would you mind showing the response, data that you are trying to extract and what are you trying to achieve in soapUI? what assertion are you doing - `Script Assertion`? — Rao, Nov 02 '17 at 11:21

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 02 '17 at 07:18

Your pattern works, but the ==~ operator requires the whole string to match this pattern. Your current regex is equal to /^(?<=\[)[\w]+=[\w]+\z/.

Use =~ that allows partial matches, not ==~ (that requires full string matches).

Note you may write [\w] as \w since \w is the only "atom" in the character class.

See the Groovy demo:

def erg='[EM6111949VA61=cfefcgjnjcidaiieodmlgfijaiknankpiodhghbagndikijiieicfhiiiojmfcfgjjkokkoilinbkkedcaafplikgjhomkhnopjhfhpjgkadalbkeenengiapjpeaiemokenfckjbeho; path=/bla/bla; secure; HttpOnly]'
def regex = /(?<=\[)\w+=\w+/
def muster = erg =~ regex
(0..<muster.count).each { print muster[it] }

Output:

EM6111949VA61=cfefcgjnjcidaiieodmlgfijaiknankpiodhghbagndikijiieicfhiiiojmfcfgjjkokkoilinbkkedcaafplikgjhomkhnopjhfhpjgkadalbkeenengiapjpeaiemokenfckjbeho

groovy with regular expression

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