Question

I have an html response, in which, a particular line is

var session_name = '1342100453_3334440619019170';

from which, I need to extract '1342100453_3334440619019170' and 1342100453_3334440619019170

Would it be possible to extract in using a regex? I need to reply this parameter in jmeter, but that’s a different story.

Answer 1

^\s*var\s+session_name\s*=\s*'(.*)';\s*$

That will capture '1342100453_3334440619019170' into the first capturing group. Whatever API you are using should be able to access that value relatively easily.

EDIT: I see you are using Java.

I’m not familiar with any of the regex APIs in Java, although java.util.regex.Pattern doesn’t look too bad.

See http://www.regular-expressions.info/java.html