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Not able to extract correct Value from URL using regular expression in JMeter

I need to extract value of code from API response Header

This is the URL

Location : https://xxxx?code=MDXEVlThajoGXJj_-l6bYFaLxileF49d&state=8edf0d78`

I am using this Regular expression

Location: https://xxxx?code=([^"]+)\s, but it is returning code=MDXEVlThajoGXJj_-l6bYFaLxileF49d&state=8edf0d78 ( whole value along with State) whereas I only want code=MDXEVlThajoGXJj_-l6bYFaLxileF49d (State value is not required and should be truncated)

Let me know what am I missing here

Solution

  • You can exclude matching a whitespace char or an ampersand, and start the pattern with a word boundary to prevent a partial word match:

    \bcode=([^\s&]+)&

    See a regex demo.

    Or if the ampersand is not mandatory:

    \bcode=([^\s&]+)