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Literal characters: Any alphanumerical character is considered a literal character and must
appear. For example, a mask of "trigger.txt" will not capture any other files than that name.
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Wildcards: Two wildcards are available in masks.
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Asterisk (*): Supports any number of characters. *.txt would pick up any text file, file*.txt
would pick up any file starting with file and any characters: file1.txt, filetest.txt.
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Question Mark (?): Supports a single character. file?.txt would pick up File1.txt or
filea.txt, but not file13.txt or filetest.txt.
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Brackets: Specifies a set of supported characters, or range of characters. Only one character
from the range is accepted, making this a subset of the ? wildcard.
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Sets: [13ab] defines support for one of these 4 characters; file[13ab].txt would pick up
file1.txt , filea.txt , but not file13.txt or filea3.txt.
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Negative Sets: [!13ab] indicates the character should NOT be part of the set. file[!13-
ab].txt would pick up file2.txt and filec.txt but not file1.txt or fileb.txt (nor would it pick up
file13.txt or filea3.txt).
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Ranges: [1-5] , [a-d] define ranges between the characters. file[1-5].txt would pick up
file1.txt and file4.txt but not file6.txt or file13.txt.
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Negative Ranges: Negative ranges such as [!2-4] are also possible.
Note: File names containing brackets can be a hassle when attempting to capture them with a
mask and using sets or ranges. You can capture a set that contains an opening bracket ([[] ) ,
but not a closing bracket as the closing bracket always ends the set or range. There is no escape
character available in masks.
Selecting a resource file in task properties
The Properties dialog of some Action, Create Content and Output tasks lets you select a file. Depend-
ing on where the selection list appears you will have access to the Connect Resources ("Connect
resources" on page38), all PlanetPress Design documents ("PlanetPress Design documents" on
page41) or only to the PlanetPress Design documents installed on a printer queue.
In most cases, you have three options:
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You can choose a specific file from the list of installed documents (see "Workflow Configuration
resource files" on page37); these will be either Connect resources, or PlanetPress Design doc-
uments, depending on the task.
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You can choose a variable file (see below).
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