Using Patterns in Parsing

Patterns can be included in the template. Their purpose is to break down the string into substrings prior to the actual parsing into words process. Parsing will then be performed, as previously described, on the substrings and not on the original string.

Two types of patterns are available:

• String Patterns - a character string delimited by quotes, to distinguish it from a variable name
• Numeric (Positional) Patterns - a number, signed or unsigned