regular expression

[vishnu vasudev]

Hi,

i am using robot framework for a gui automation

here my 

${text} = extend to 2016.12.31

looks like this.

I would like it to be without the characters like this

${text} = 2016.12.31

can you please let me know a regular expression by which i can do that

Regards

Vishnu

[Hélio Guilherme]

This is a possible solution of a regular expression for your case:

"\d{4}[.]\d{2}[.]\d{2}"

I used the https://regex101.com/#python to test that expression.

Other option is to use the String library, for example splitting the text by ${SPACE} and getting the last value (the date) or you could use a keyword to remove all words from text. This is the doc for a keyword you could try: Split String From Right

 

[vishnu vasudev]

Hello Robot,

Thanks alot for kind suggestion.

I was not able to get a keyword in robot framework to get this working.

i used the following 

${final}= Get Lines Matching Regexp ${text} \d{2}[.]\d{2}[.]\d{4}

where ${text}=extend to 31.12.2016

BUt it failed with these logs

KEYWORD BuiltIn . Log ${text}

Documentation:	Logs the given message with the given level.
Start / End / Elapsed:	20160301 23:17:26.997 / 20160301 23:17:26.997 / 00:00:00.000

23:17:26.997

INFO

extend to 31.12.2016

00:00:00.000 KEYWORD ${final} = String . Get Lines Matching Regexp ${text}, \d{2}[.]\d{2}[.]\d{4}

Documentation:	Returns lines of the given string that match the regexp pattern.
Start / End / Elapsed:	20160301 23:17:26.997 / 20160301 23:17:26.997 / 00:00:00.000

23:17:26.997

INFO

0 out of 1 lines matched

23:17:26.997

INFO

${final} =

00:00:00.000 KEYWORD BuiltIn . Log ${final}

Regards

Vishnu

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[Hélio Guilherme]

terça-feira, 1 de Março de 2016 às 17:55:15 UTC, vishnu vasudev escreveu:

Hello Robot,

Thanks alot for kind suggestion.

My name is Hélio (reads like Elyu  E like in Eolic).
 

I was not able to get a keyword in robot framework to get this working.

i used the following 

${final}= Get Lines Matching Regexp ${text} \d{2}[.]\d{2}[.]\d{4}

That is a different question.
That keyword is expecting an exact match (and it uses /^ and $/ from beginning to end). You must "try" \w{2}\d{2}[.]\d{2}[.]\d{4} or .*\d{2}[.]\d{2}[.]\d{4} but you will get the complete line.
If you are using RF > 2.9 you can use the option partial_match=True.
Take care that in Python/RF the (\)  may have to be escaped with another (\\).

After getting the lines you will have to do more filtering like I explained before.

[Kolambe, Jayashree]

You want to remove extend to text from ‘extend to 2016.12.31’ correct?

You can do that with following:

${text}=               Replace String    ${text}    extend to         ${EMPTY}

 

With above, you will now have only date in ${text}

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[vishnu vasudev]

Hi Jayashree.

the one problem is that the line containing the info can vary.

it would be any characters with the date at the end,

So either i have to remove the letters from the line or spilt the line to get the date.

i guess then this command cannot work out since i have to give the string here.

Hi Hélio,

i tried to split the line based on your advice.

seems to work well :)

Thanks alot Jayashree and Hélio 

Regards

Vishnu

[Kolambe, Jayashree]

Try following….

${text}=    replace string using regexp     ${text}  .+[A-Za-z ]   ${EMPTY}