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Date on Varying Pages Pattern Matching

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Updated June 5, 2015

asked on June 5, 2015

I'm attempting to pull a date out of a document that is not always on the same page. Documents can range from 1-30 pages

I'm using the Pattern Matching Function. Date is always formatted the same, for example 5th DAY OF JULY, 2017.

I'm using this regular expression and as you can see in the test it works. It also works if I run the process on a sample page with the text I want in it. However, when I run it on several text documents it doesn't work. Even on the document I took the sample page from. I have attached a sample document text I would like to extract is on pay 2/4.

Council Ordinance 603 Zone Code Amendment 07-49 Changing CF to GC.pdf (141.18 KB)

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replied on June 5, 2015

Hi Brittney,

If you go to Tools -> Options and look under Quick Fields -> Advanced, you'll see an option that says "When a token value is set by multiple pages, always use the first non-blank value (instead of the most recent non-blank value)"

See if checking this box solves your problem.

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