Jmeter - Regex issue with embedded variable and $

Question

Greetings,

In Jmeter's regex component, I am running into an issue when the expression has both a variable AND a literal '$'. It always returns as fail. When I replace the variable with a hardcoded value, it works fine. I have verified the variable is returning the expected value in previous call.

Failed Expression: (variable and literal '$')

<option value="${variable}".+?>\$(.+?)</option>

Working Version: (no variable)

<option value="1".+?>\$(.+?)</option>

Alternately, if I remove the literal '$', it works.

Alt. Working Expression: (variable, no literal '$')

<option value="${variable}".+?>(.+?)</option>

Thoughts?

Answer 1

You could try [$] as an alternative to escaping it with a backslash.

Answer 2

Work around has been to replace \$ with \W or \S

Answer 3

You could do it using a BeanShell function, which has access to the "vars" object.

For example, vars.get("variable") is equivalent to ${variable}.

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