[Search: The scope of the search—where to search for the delimited data. The possible values are Headers (Search only the headers), Body (search only body data, not headers), Noresource (search only the HTML body, excluding all headers and resources), or ALL (search body , headers, and resources). The default value is ALL. This attribute is optional.]

This is an insanely restrictive use of a highly smart functionallity. I have written a function that would let the user to search for delimited data within another delimited data, much better than normal search options – header, body and the rest.
Basically this is like adding another LB and RB for the search attribute. :)

If you are extracting such comma-seperated values (csv) from the served HTML AND the values contain any commas then it is likely the developers have experienced the same problem you face – either the seperating commas fall after a certain number of characters (i.e. fixed character length values) [solution is to extract based on character length] or known values are found within the list (string match) [solution is to use any known values found to be existing in the csv]. So generally you should be safe to use strtok.

I do agree though, use of unusual characters (or even use of extremely unusual sequences of unusual characters) is a more robust means of seperating values.

But if there is any function to extract the data from a string which is extrcted from the page like the following, then it would really very gr8.

1. (LB)(’string1′,’string2′,’string3′,’string4′)(RB) from this –> (’string1′,’string2′,’string3′,’string4′) this can be extracted very easily.
2. But if want to use string1 string2 string3 string4 in 4 diff variables then i have to use strtok with the delimiters “‘,”.
3. but problem will arise when the string1 or string2 or string3 or string4 contains the anyone delimiter (‘ or ,).
4. Instead if there is any function like from which we can give a string (‘,’) as delimiter in loadrunner, then it would really very helpful.
5. like in java,string.split.

What do u say? Or is there any functions already available in loadrunner. ( I accept that we can write our own functions.)

Chandru

Chris