complex regex for JMeter - regex

Need to capture below value from string in JMeter
<input id="__TriDocumentName" type="hidden"
value="C%3A%5CWindows%5CTEMP%2Fdocuments%5CBIRTDOCtDY1z2sxwRM6nzf2s7UGO0S%5C20170913_061108_464%5CBalance+Sheet+Report28082017.rptdocument"/>
Value to be capture: 20170913_061108_464
what will be the regex for this?
Notice here BIRTDOCtDY1z2sxwRM6nzf2s7UGO0S value is also dynamic.

Right click on the sampler from which you want to extract dynamic value and add>Post Processors> Regular Expression Extractor.
“Apply to” checkbox : Useful in case if sample has child samples that request for embedded resources. This parameter defines will be regular expression be applied to either only main sample results or to the embedded resources too. You can choose according to your requirement
“Response field to check” check-box.This parameter defines to which field regular expression should be applied.
In regular expression field: You have to find the left boundary and right boundary of the value to extract for e.g. this is my response "something date:"20170913_061108_464" some value", then my regex will be [date:"(.+?)"] where (date:") is the right boundary and (") is the left boundary.
Template. The template used to create a string from the matches found. This is an arbitrary string with special elements to refer to groups within the regular expression. The syntax to refer to a group is: '$1$' to refer to group 1, '$2$' to refer to group 2, etc. $0$ refers to whatever the entire expression matches. So, if you have in response word “economics” and search for regular expression “(ec)(onomics)” and apply template $2$$1$ than in output variable you will receive “onomicsec”.
Match ¹. If there is several character sequences, allows specifying, which variant exactly should be used. Important note. If you set “Apply to” to “Main sample and sub-samples” and specify “Match ¹” = 3, than JMeter will select matching sequence from the 2nd sub-sample because 1st will be main sample. If zero is specified, JMeter will choose a match at random. If you specify negative number, e.g. “-2”
To invoke extracted value use the reference name followed by $ sign.

Use Regular Expression Extractor with below pattern
Regular Expression : [A-Z]+%5C([0-9_]+)%5
Template :$1$
Match No : 1

Use Regular Expression Extractor with date pattern after %5C and until next %:
Regular Expression : %5C([0-9\_]+)%
Template: $1$
Match No: 1

The code below is working.
<input id="__TriDocumentName" type="hidden" value="C%3A%5CWindows%5CTEMP%2Fdocuments%5C.*?%5C(.*?)%5CBalance\+Sheet\+Report28082017.rptdocument"

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Jmeter correlation for values with no left or right boundries

I wanna correlate a alphanumeric 81fe8bfe87576c3ecb22426f8e57847382917acf value returned from a POST API request as Response which consists of no left or right boundaries, I am using ^[a-zA-Z0-9]+$ as regex expression which is a correct regex expression with Jmeter RegExp Tester, but unable to extract the alphanumeric value from the response and store in a variable as determined by the logs using Regular Expression Extractor.
But, Values returned by the logs shows unable to extract alphanumeric value using Regular Expression Extractor.
Here is my Regular Expression Extractor to extract the alphanumeric value
I already have tried out all the Fields to check options available, nothing works. I am not sure , exactly why is it not working as the regex expression ^[a-zA-Z0-9]+$ is correct, maybe it's related to empty or no left and right boundaries.
Would really appreciate any resolution provided.
Your ^[a-zA-Z0-9]+$ regex contains no capturing groups, but your template, $1$, retrieves Group 1 value from the match. Since the match has no Group 1, the value is not found.
There are two solutions:
Replace your ^[a-zA-Z0-9]+$ with ^([a-zA-Z0-9]+)$ and keep on using $1$ template.
Replace $1$ with $0$ so as to access the whole match value, Group 0, rather than Group 1 (that is missing in the original regex).
You need to surround your regular expression with parentheses in order to have a capture group, see Meta Characters chapter of JMeter User Manual for more information
Given you need to extract only alphanumeric characters you can simplify your regular expression to just (\w+)
Given you need to get the full response you can just use Boundary Extractor and leave both boundaries blank - JMeter will store the whole response into a JMeter Variable (it will work for JMeter 5.2 or higher, see JMeter Bug 63775 for details
If you need to store the whole response into a JMeter Variable and want to use Regular Expression Extractor for this the relevant regular expression would be (?s)(^.*)

regex expression for selecting a value

I want to write a regexp formula for the below sip message that takes number:
< sip:callpark#as1sip1.com:5060;user=callpark;service=callpark;preason=park;paction=park;ptoken=150009;pautortrv=180;nt_server_host=47.168.105.100:5060 >
(Actually there are "<" and ">" signs in the message, but the site does not let me write)
For this case, I want to select ptoken value.. I wrote an expression such as: ptoken=(.*);p but it returns me ptoken=150009;p, I just need the number:150009
How do I write a regexp for this case?
PS: I write this for XML script..
Thanks,
I SOLVE THE PROBLEM BY USING TWO REGEX:
ereg assign_to="token" check_it="true" header="Refer-To:" regexp="(ptoken=([\d]*))" search_in="hdr"/
ereg assign_to="callParkToken" search_in="var" variable="token" check_it="true" regexp="([\d].*)" /
You could use the following regex:
ptoken=(\d+)
# searches for ptoken= literally
# captures every digit found in the first group
Your wanted numbers are in the first group then. Take a look at this demo on regex101.com. Depending on your actual needs, there could be better approaches (Xpath? as tagged as XML) though.
You should use lookahead and lookbehind:
(?<=ptoken=)(.+?)(?=;)
It captures any character (.+?) before which is ptoken= and behind which is ;
The <ereg ... > action has the assign_to parameter. In your case assign_to="token". In fact, the parameter can receive several variable names. The first is assigned the whole string matching the regular expression, and the following are assigned the "capture groups" of the regular expression.
If your regexp is ptoken=([\d]*), the whole match includes ptoken which is bad. The first capture group is ([\d]*) which is the required value. Thus, use <ereg regexp="ptoken=([\d]*)" assign_to="dummyvar,token" ..other parameters here.. >.
Is it working?

Regular Expression to unmatch a particular string

I am trying to use regular expression in Jmeter where in I need to unmatch a particular string. Here is my input test string : <activationCode>insvn</activationCode>
I need to extract the code insvn from it. I tried using the expression :
[^/<activationCode>]\w+, but does not yield the required code. I am a newbie to regular expression and i need help with this.
Can you use look-behind assertion in jmeter? If so, you can use thatr regex which will give you a word that follows <activationCode>
(?<=\<activationCode\>)\w+
If your input string is encoded (e.g for HTML), use:
(?<=\<activationCode\>)\w+
When designing a regular expression in any language for something like this you can match your input string as three groups: (the opening tag, the content, and the closing tag) then select the content from the second group.

how to modify this regular expression to exclude the 3rd type of result

Here are three patterns which may occur in the search string:
.+?
<font color=green>.+?</font>
<b><font color=green>.+?</font></b>
The expression I wrote matches all of the above:
(<font color=.+?>)?(.+?)(</font>)?
How can I write a regular expression to match only the first and the second string, the third one should be excluded in the result.
Generally, you should avoid parsing (X)HTML with regex.
In your case, you may be able to avoid matching tags in the contained text using an expression like
(<font color=.+?>)?([^<]*?)(</font>)?
Note that this will ignore all tags in the <a> content.

What do the braces () in URL regular expression represent?

For example, in
r'^articles/(\d{4})/$', 'news.views.year_archive'
I understand all regexes except (\d{4}). Four digits but why the braces?
(python/django example)
another example:
r'^articles/(\d{4})/(\d{2})/(\d+)/$', 'news.views.article_detail'
Braces are used for grouping, which can be used to extract a subset of a match. They can also be used to indicate that a subset repeats (or is optional), although your regex does not use them that way.
See http://www.regular-expressions.info/brackets.html
Based on the usage, I'd wager that the code matching this URL is using the brackets to extract the year so that it can be used in a query. See the group function of the Match object
Django automatically extracts grouped subexpressions and uses them as parameters for your view:
The view gets passed an HttpRequest as its first argument and any values captured in the regex as remaining arguments.
...
A request to /articles/2005/03/ would match the third entry in the list. Django would call the function news.views.month_archive(request, '2005', '03').
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/http/urls/
Besides grouping part of a regular expression together, round brackets also create a "backreference". A backreference stores the part of the string matched by the part of the regular expression inside the parentheses.