Combine

Combines instances from child extractors based on the grouping specified in the Group By property.

Inherits from: Collation Provider

Properties

The following 5 properties are defined.

Property Name	Description
Output
Group By	Type: GroupingType, Default: None When the Combine collation method is in use, determines how results from child extractors are grouped together. Can be one of the following values: None - All instances from all extractors will be combined into a single instance. Row - Instances which align horizontally will be combined. Column - Instances which align vertically will be combined.
Enforce Page Boundaries	Type: Boolean, Default: False If set true, instances produced by the operation will not be allowed to span pages.
Combine Method	Type: CombineType, Default: Individual Defines the method used for constructing the output instances. Can be one of the following values: None - Output instances will not be combined. Individual - The output value will be a concatenation of the individual results, using the configured Output Separator between each instance. Flow - The output value will be an extraction from the original document flow containing all text between the beginning of the first instance and the end of the last instance. Geometric - The output value will be an extraction of all characters falling inside the zone defined by the individual results. Sum - The output value will be the sum of the extracted instances. Any values which cannot be converted to a numeric value will evaulate to zero. Group - The output value will reflect the value of a specific child extractor or regular expression group.
Result Separator	Type: String The separator to be used between each combined instance. The following special escape sequences may be used: \r - Carriage return \n - Line feed \t - Tab \f - Form feed \s - Space
General
Output Element	Type: String Specifies the name of a child extractor or regular expression group when the combine method is set to 'Group'.

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