Find Text
The Find Text activity finds lines in a text file. Use the Find Text activity to find according to a search string that you specify.
This activity replaces functionality in the Manage Text File legacy activity from Opalis 6.3.
Configure the Find Text Activity
Before you configure the Find Text activity, you need to determine the following:
The name of the file that you want to search in.
The encoding type of the file you want to search in uses.
The text that you want to search for.
Use the following information to configure the Find Text activity.
Details Tab
| Settings | Configuration Instructions |
|---|---|
| File | Enter the path and name of the file that you want to find the text in, or select the ellipsis button (...) and browse for it. |
| File encoding | Select the ellipsis button (...) and select the format that the file is encoded in from the File encoding dropdown list. Verify that you select the correct encoding format; if the file uses a different encoding format, the activity fails. |
| Search text | Type the text that you're searching for in the file. |
| Case sensitive | Select this option to search only for lines where the case of the words matches the text from the Search text field exactly. |
| Use regular expressions | Select this option to use regular expressions in your search. |
| Result | Select one of the following options for your results: Only the first line that matches the text will be returned All lines that match the text will be returned |
Published Data
The following table lists the published data items.
| Item | Description |
|---|---|
| Case sensitive | Indicates whether the Case sensitive checkbox was selected. |
| File encoding | The file encoding format that you selected in the File encoding field. |
| File name | The name of the file that was searched for text. |
| Return first line or all lines | Indicates whether Only the first line that matches the text will be published or All lines that match the text will be published option was selected. |
| Line number of match | The line number where matching text was found. |
| Match end | The character offset position that the match ends on. |
| Match start | The character offset position that the match starts on. |
| Matched text | The text that matched the search string. |
| Number of lines matched | The number of lines where matching text was found. |
| Number of matches | The number of matching items that were found. |
| Original line | The entire line that contains the matching item. |
| Search text | The search string that was used for the search. |
| Use Regex | Indicates whether the Use regular expressions checkbox was selected. |