Sub-Extractor Patterns
Overview
Sub-extractor patterns allow you to extract data within the context of an extractor pattern, providing significantly more flexibility in pinpointing the specific pieces you're after. Please read our documentation on using sub-extractor patterns before deciding to use them.
Sub-extractor patterns only match the first element they can. To get multiple matches, you would use manual extractor patterns instead.
Managing Sub-Extractor Patterns
Adding
- Click the Add Sub-Extractor Pattern button in the sub-extractor patterns tab of the extractor pattern.
Removing
- Click the Delete Sub-Extractor Pattern button in the main pane of the sub-extractor pattern in the sub-extractor patterns tab of the extractor pattern.
Sub-Extractor Pattern: Main Pane
- Test Pattern: Opens a dataSet window with the information extracted from the last scrape of the file.
- Highlight Extracted Data (professional and enterprise editions only): Opens the last response tab and places a colored background on all text that matches to the extractor tokens.
- Delete: Removes the sub-extractor pattern from the extractor pattern.
- Copy (professional and enterprise editions only): Removes the sub-extractor pattern from the extractor pattern.
- Sequence: Order in which the sub-extractor patterns should be applied.