Troubles with Regex in Browser

[XeNoMoRpH]

I'm having troubles using regular expressions in general actually and I'm not entirely sure why.

Lets say the browser title is ABC. When you go to a different page, it changes to ABC - New Page. I figured I could access the browser with the following:

Code:

Browser("name:=ABC*")

or

Code:

Set bDesc = Description.Create
bDesc("name").value="ABC*"
Browser(bDesc)

Both should work, but they aren't for me.

Does anyone have an idea why?

[Ankur]

While working with description you need to specify whether the property needs to be treated as reg-ex or not...

Code:

bDesc("name").RegularExpression = True

btw... I think by default all properties of description object are treated as reg-ex ,but just in case, let me know if this worked for you.

[XeNoMoRpH]

That also did not work. From my understanding, QTP is supposed to treat the values as regular expressions (as you said). I'm not sure why it's not doing so.

[ursvinod]

Hi

Try this

Code:

Set bDesc = Description.Create
bDesc("name").value="ABC.*"
Browser(bDesc

)

or

Code:

Browser("name:=ABC.*")

[XeNoMoRpH]

That worked. Not sure why I didn't try an actual regular expression. I got to involved with the examples and everyone said you could just use the asterisk. Thanks