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Pattern Date

Workflow

Updated February 2, 2018

asked on February 1, 2018 • Show version history

Hi all,

Using Workflow and Pattern Matching, is it possible to have an pattern with the actually year?

Example : Sentence : This is something 2016Ab123 and something else 2018Cd456.

Pattern : <year>\D{2}\d{3}

Result => 2018Cd456 (and not 2016Ab123)

I tried this but it looks doesnt work.

%(Date){4}$\D{2}\d{3}

Thanks in advance.

Regards

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replied on February 2, 2018

You can use the date token, extract just the year and use it in your regexp.
(%(Date#<(\d{4})>#)\w+) returns 2018Cd456

To do this check allow tokens in the pattern and enter the %(Date) in the pattern line.
Select the 'Token Dialog' option
Highlight the date once that opens and apply a regular expression to the date, (\d{4})
That will give you the %(Date#<(\d{4})>#) (the year) in your pattern match and you can further construct your regexp.

~Andrew

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replied on February 2, 2018

Thank you Andrew, It's working.

Regards

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replied on February 1, 2018

You can't use %(Date) with Workflow pattern matching.

You could try \d{4}\w{2}\d{3}

Otherwise, if you only want 2018 results and not 2016 results - 2018\w{2}\d{3}

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Asked February 1, 2018
Updated February 2, 2018
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