check pattern not in text

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Action-based testing language

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check pattern not in text

Description

Check whether the displayed text of a control contains a specified substring, or matches a specified regular expression. Result is Passed ifthe captured string does not match the pattern; otherwise Failed.

Arguments

window
TA name of the window.
control
TA name of the control.
pattern
Text or pattern to test for.

Valid contexts

This action may be used within the following project items: test modules and user-defined actions.

Notes

The pattern argument can accept regular expressions. Note that argument values that include regular expressions must be entirely enclosed in curly braces {}. As an example, {[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}} specifies the pattern for an acceptable email address. More simply, .* represents the general wildcard for regular expressions, so that {.*arch.*} matches starch, marching, testarchitect, etc.
On macOS, curly brackets {} are treated as special characters. To include a curly bracket in regular expressions you must enclose it in a pair of square brackets []. For example: { →[{]; }→ [}].
This action supports the <ignore> modifier. If the string <ignore> is present as the value of any of the arguments, or any argument contains an expression that evaluates to <ignore>, the action is skipped during execution.