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Add CRLF after last line: Select if you want to add a CRLF (carriage return/line feed)
character after the last line of text added to the job file. This option is only available when
you choose to add lines of text to the job file.
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ASCII file: Enter the path and name of the text file to be added to the job file, or use the
Browse button to navigate to this file. This box is only displayed when the Text file option
is selected in the Content box.
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Characters: Enter the string of characters to be added to the job file. This box is only
displayed when the Characters option is selected in the Content box.
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Lines: Enter the lines of text to be added to the job file. This box is only displayed when
the Lines option is selected in the Content box.
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Remove: Enter the number of characters or lines to be removed from the job file. This box
is only displayed when Remove is selected in the Action group and when the Characters
or Lines option is selected in the Content box.
Miscellaneous Tab
The Miscellaneous tab is common to all tasks.
Check the option Use as step description to display the text next to the icon of the plugin in
the Process area.
Advanced Search and Replace
Advanced Search and Replace action tasks are used to locate and replace strings of data
within the job file and to replace them with other strings of data. Contrary to Search and
Replace action tasks, they allow the use of regular expressions.
Using regular expressions, it is possible to search for patterns rather than specific strings. For
instance, a pattern can be specified to find all valid email addresses or phone numbers within
the data stream.
In a regular expression, substrings can be captured as groups using parentheses. Values of
capturing groups - the matched substrings - can then be included in the replacement string
using the dollar sign syntax: $1 ... $9. The numbering follows the order in which groups appear
in the search string.
For example, in order to replace all instances of "Page x/y" (Page 1/3, Page 2/3, etc.) in a
document with "Page x of y total pages", the regular expression would have to contain
parentheses to capture the values of x and y: Page\s(\d*)\/(\d*). The first capturing group,
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