Global Switch (/g) in RegEx parsing strategy in Pattern Designer

[knightofmirrors]

Has anyone been able to successfully get the Global (/g) switch to work successfully in Pattern Designer for a RegEx parsing strategy?  

If I write a pattern that successfully is iterated using the Global switch and it tests correctly in a tool like Regexr, that same pattern won't match on subsequent iterations when I try with /g in the Pattern Designer.

I am trying to build a tabular variable and would like an additional row for each match of the pattern

Thanks!

Sean

[Asi Garty · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Unfortunately the global switch is not supported, and the expression matchs each line separately.
The good news are that it is on the road map as a future enhancement.

If you are populating a table it will iterate through the entire text and add new table row for each successful (non global) match.

in order to globally match the entire text, you should write a pattern step with an eval statement and implement a simple java script that will run regexp match with any required flags.

Hope this helps.

If it does please mark if helpful and share your results.

Asi

[johnnyjava]

ASI that's a great idea however I've never been able to access and return a Tabular variable through EVAL scripting. Do you have an example?

[knightofmirrors]

Asi thank you this was very helpful!

[Asi Garty]

Hi Sean, thanks for the feedback.
Just mark it as helpful 🙂