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Text file boundaries
For a text file, Boundaries determine how many 'data pages' are included in each record. These
don't have to be actual pages, as is the case with PDF files. The data page delimiters are set in
the "Text file Input Data settings" on page269.
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Record limit: Defines how many records are displayed in the Data Viewer. This does not
affect output production; when generating output, this option is ignored. To disable the
limit, use the value 0 (zero).
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Selection/Text is based on bytes: Select this option for text records with fixed width
fields whose length is based on the number of bytes and not the number of characters.
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Trigger: Defines the type of rule that controls when a boundary is set, creating a new
record.
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On delimiter: Defines a boundary on a static number of pages.
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Occurrences: The number of times that the delimiter is encountered before
fixing the boundary. For example, if you know that your documents always
have four pages delimited by the FF character, you can set the boundaries
after every four delimiters.
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On text: Defines a boundary on a specific text comparison.
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Location:
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Selected area:
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Select the area button: Uses the value of the current data
selection as the text value. Making a new selection and clicking on
Select the area will redefine the location.
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Left/Right: Defines where to find the text value in the row.
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Top/Bottom: Defines the start and end row of the data selection to
compare with the text value.
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Entire width: Ignores the column values and compares using the whole
line.
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Entire height: Ignores the row values and compares using the whole
column.
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Entire page: Compares the text value on the whole page. Only available
with contains, not contains, is empty and is not empty
operators.
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