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 check pattern

check pattern

Description

Check whether a string of text conforms to a specified pattern. Result is Passed ifthe string matches the pattern; otherwise Failed.

Arguments

• text

  Text string to be tested.

• pattern

  Expected pattern.

Valid contexts

This action may be used within the following project items: test modules and user-defined actions.

Notes

• The pattern argument can accept regular expressions. Note that argument values that include regular expressions must be entirely enclosed in curly braces {}. As an example, {[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+.[A-Z]{2,4}}`` specifies the pattern for an acceptable email address. More simply, .* represents the general wildcard for regular expressions, so that {.*arch.*} matches starch, marching, testarchitect, etc. As an example: {[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}} specifies the pattern for an acceptable email address.
• This action supports the <ignore> modifier. If the string <ignore> is present as the value of any of the arguments, or any argument contains an expression that evaluates to <ignore>, the action is skipped during execution.

Applicable Built-In Settings

The following settings are applicable to this action: case sensitive, remove double quotes from cells, standard ASCII only.

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