Should Match Regexp

Robot Framework
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I test a Regexp in regex101.com

I paste it in the robot file after.

Should Match Regexp.

Push to Git, Test in Docker… FAILS.
TypeError: expected string does not match pattern as a regular expression.

question/verzoek/wish:

Can it be made so that:
If I test it online and paste it into Robot file… it works.

  1. either it auto-reformats
  2. it reads it correctly under the hood.
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Please read carefully the documentation, for Should Match Regexp, see the example where the \ must be escaped with another \, resulting in \\. This means you cannot copy and paste from some regex verification site.

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thanks.

also:

the fault was in the ${count}

${count} Get Element Count xpath=bla , was not a string

→ 

${countstring}   Convert To String   ${count}
Should Match Regexp   ${countstring}   ^[1-9]\d*$

… made it work