Regular Expression

Question

Writing regular expression for below code

<select name="fromPort" class="form-inline">
        <option value="Paris">Paris</option>
        <option value="Philadelphia">Philadelphia</option>
        <option value="Boston">Boston</option>
        <option value="Portland">Portland</option>
        <option value="San Diego">San Diego</option>
        <option value="Mexico City">Mexico City</option>
        <option value="São Paolo">São Paolo</option>
    </select>
    <p>
    <h2>Choose your destination city:</h2>
    <select name="toPort" class="form-inline">
        <option value="Buenos Aires">Buenos Aires</option>
        <option value="Rome">Rome</option>
        <option value="London">London</option>
        <option value="Berlin">Berlin</option>
        <option value="New York">New York</option>
        <option value="Dublin">Dublin</option>
        <option value="Cairo">Cairo</option>
    </select>

I am using but it is capturing all the drop-down values from different drop-down list. I need values to be separated by fields

Answer 1

Be aware that using Regular Expressions for extracting values from HTML responses might not be the best idea as:

• Regular expressions would be hard to create and maintain
• Regular expressions will be very sensitive to markup change, i.e. new line or attribute order will run your test

I would recommend going for CSS/JQuery Extractor instead

1. Add CSS/JQuery Extractor as a child of the request

2. Configure it as follows:

   • Name of created variable: anything meaningful, i.e. from
   • CSS/JQuery expression: select[name=fromPort] > option
   • Attribute: value
   • Match No. -1

3. It will generate the following matches:

   

4. Resulting in the next JMeter Variables

   

5. Now you will be able to refer them as:

   • ${from_1} - will result in Paris
   • ${from_2} - will return Philadelphia
   • etc.