Need to escape '|' pipe characters in regex matches on Windows

[brian-mcmaster]

Just ran into another issue with LDTP here at Tableau Software. We use pipe characters to delimit our Pseudoloc strings, so and example string looks like this: "23153-|Blah|"

This causes problems because the pipe characters don't get escaped in the internal regex matches in Utils.cs, so it considers the '|' characters to be 'or'. And since the string ENDS in a pipe character, it matches any control with a caption of empty string, which is really bad.

It's an easy fix, just have to escape the pipe characters in line 144 of ldtpd\Utils.cs and make them be '|' just like the rest of the escapes. In addition, I had to add this around line 626 in the same file:
tmp = Regex.Replace(tmp, @"|", @"|");

I haven't tested this on other non-Windows platforms yet.

Thanks,
Brian McMaster
Principal Software Test Engineer
Tableau Software (http://www.tableau.com)

[brian-mcmaster]

Any comments? Is this by-design? Are you supposed to be able to do waittillguiexist("window", "one|two|three") to wait for any of three controls to appear on the window?

Thanks!