[rspec-users] regex help

Jonathan Linowes
Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:53:24 -0000

Thanks that worked.

Normally I would combine them into one step, but this case, one is in
a general reusable steps file, and the other is specific to a
feature. I thought the word "item" would be sufficient to distinguish
the two.



On Dec 29, 2008, at 1:07 AM, Stephen Eley wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 11:59 PM, Jonathan Linowes
> <jonathan at parkerhill.com> wrote:
>>
>> Perhaps tell it to ignore any matches with " item" in it, but
dont
>> know how
>
> It''s called a zero-width negative lookahead, and it looks like
this:
> /^the (?!\w+ item)(.*) should have a \<(.*)\> tag with
"(.*)"/
>
> I didn''t test this to be sure, but I believe it should work.  But
> rephrasing your steps so that one isn''t a special case of the
other
> would probably be better.  Or just having one step that contains the
> logic from both.
>
>
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