RegExp Help

[samsanto]

Hi Jeremy,

I am trying to check if user input contains at least one of two possible words (from a csv), and I am having trouble coming up with the correct syntax for the RegExp. I’ve tried so many different ways of writing it, but I can’t get it. Here’s what I have that is the closest to it… but it only works if the first word (option1) is found, the second one (option2) is ignored completely.

Any help would be appreciated!

getButton("cont")
            .wait(
                getTextInput("desc")
                    .testNot.text("").failure(getText("warning").print())
                    .and(
                        getTextInput("desc").test.text(new RegExp(variable.Option1) || new RegExp(variable.Option2))
                            .failure( getText("warning").print() )
                    )
            )
        ,

Thanks so much,
Sam

[Jeremy]

Hi Sam,

You cannot use the || operator inside a PennController test command like that. The TextInput text test command accepts either a string or a regex as its argument—what you’re doing here is passing the first non-null disjunct, which will necessarily be new RegExp(variable.Option1) because this constructor will never return null (or undefined, etc).

Long story short, you want to build a single regex object that will match both Option1 and Option2, like this: new RegExp(variable.Option1+"|"+variable.Option2)

Jeremy

[samsanto]

perfect! Thanks Jeremy.

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