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Methods and properties
The following table lists the methods and properties of the steps object. These are available in
Extract, Condition, Repeat, and Action steps, depending on the file type.
Method Description File
type
currentPosition Returns the current position of the pointer in the data.
Depending on the type of data being processed, the return
value may be a string (e.g. XPath value in XML), an integer
(e.g. line numbers in text ot tabular data), or a measure in
millimeters(e.g. PDF data).
All
currentLoopCounter An integer value representing the current iteration of the
containing loop. When loops are nested, you have access to
the iteration for the current loop but not to any of the parent
loops.
All
currentPage Returns an integer value representing the current page
where the current position is located, inside the current
record.
Text,
PDF
currentPageHeight The height of the current page in millimeters. PDF
currentPageWidth The width of the current page in millimeters. PDF
moveTo()
Moves the pointer in the source data file to another position. All
moveToNext()
Moves the position of the pointer in the source data file to
the next line, row or node. The behavior and arguments are
different for each emulation type: text, PDF, tabular (CSV),
or XML.
All
totalPages An integer value representing the total number of pages Text,
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