How to get value from key response?

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I can see two potential issues.

  1. Does the description actually include the **'s.

If so, then these are special characters and the targeting of that element using dot notation will fail. (Please see my example code below for a work around\alternative method for targeting the element).

  1. I’m not sure how you have stored your id_to_operate, but that is not how you work with variables in scripts.

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The following should work.

const response = pm.response.json()

let id = pm.collectionVariables.get("id_to_operate")

let expectedResult = "text with id " + id + " is already deprecated."
console.log(expectedResult)

let actualResult = response["**description**"]
console.log(actualResult);

pm.test(`description check for ID ${id}`, () => {
    pm.expect(actualResult).to.eql(expectedResult);
})

When things fail, its useful to include the failure message, as that tells you a lot about what is failing. Although in this case, it potentially may have multiple issues.