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placed in the clipboard. To paste the copied step at its destination, right-click the step in
the position before the desired location and select Paste Step, or use the button in the
Toolbar.
Step properties pane
The Step Properties pane is used to adjust the properties of each step in the process. The pane
is divided in a few subsections depending on the step and the data type. It always contains a
subsection to name and document the selected step.
Note
Step properties may also depend on the data sample's file type.
l "Preprocessor step properties" below
l "Text File" on page193
l "Text and PDF Files" on page202
l "Text and PDF Files" on page209
l "Condition step properties" on page214
l "Left operand, Right operand" on page217
l "Text file" on page220
l "JavaScript " on page225
Preprocessor step properties
The Preprocessor step does not run for every record in the source data. It runs once, at the
beginning of the extraction workflow, before anything else; see "Preprocessor step" on
page116.
The properties described below become visible in the Step properties pane when the
Preprocessor step is selected in the Steps pane.
Description
This subsection is collapsed by default in the interface, to give more screen space to other
important parts.
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