Question

I am trying to use regex to match values in a switch statement, so I don’t have to create a separate case for similar values.

   <switch xmlns:ns="http://org.apache.synapse/xsd" source="$ctx:val">
      <case regex="5 | 2">
         <log level="custom">
            <property name="log1" value="hit"/>
         </log>
      </case>
   </switch>

However, this doesn’t seem to work. It works if I create two separate cases for “5” and “2”. Any ideas? Thanks.

Answer 1

The spaces will be treated as literal characters in regex that are required for the match. Simply remove them:

<case regex="5|2">