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Opalis Integration Server > Foundation Objects > Text File Management > Find Text

Find Text
The Find Text object finds lines in a text file.
Note: This object replaces functionality in the Manage Text File Legacy object. For more information, see the Legacy topic.
How it is used
Use the Find Text object to find according to a search string that you specify.
Configuration
To configure the Find Text object you need to know name of the file that you want to search in, the file encoding that it uses, and the text that you want to search for.
Details Tab
 
File
Type the path and name of the file that you want to find the text in, or click the ellipsis button (...) and browse for it.
File encoding
Click the ellipsis button (...) and select the format that the file is encoded in from the File encoding drop-down list. Verify that you select the correct encoding format: if the file uses a different encoding format, the object fails.
Search text
Type the text that you are searching for in the file.
Use regular expressions
Select this option to use regular expressions in your search. For more information on regular expressions, see the “Regular Expressions” topic in the Opalis Integration Server Online Help.
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.
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
Available Published Data
 
Name
Description
Case sensitive
Indicates whether the Case sensitive check box was checked or not.
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 the Only the first line that matches the text will be returned or All lines that match the text will be returned 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 check box was checked or not.
Common Published Data

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