Parse File Action

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http://www.international-presence.com/images/docs/fileparser/fileparser_header.png

parse File Action Node

The purpose of this node is to convert data found within a file into a dataset.

The files that we can convert are:-

  • RTF Table
  • RTF
  • Text
  • HTML
  • HTML Table
  • CSV Table
Parsing HTML or RTF Tables

Once we have chosen the type of file we are going to parse, and the url we can hit populate.

This pre parses the table in the file and returns a list of available cells.

You then probably need to delete the cells you aren't interested in, along with the cells that contain data as opposed to the cells that contain fields.

We can then get the parser to search for a cell by giving it either a location, such as pt(0,0) or text to search for, such as TEAM NAME.

When it finds this cell it will then return:-

Cell Above

Cell Right

Cell Below

Cell Left

Chars At Cell

Given the the rtf file we have below, let us say we want to extract the 2 Contact Telephone Numbers, the Team Name and the Team Location.

http://www.international-presence.com/images/docs/fileparser/rtffile.png

http://www.international-presence.com/images/docs/fileparser/fileparserscan.png

Notice that "Repeat" is selected for "telephone Numbers"

This is because we know there is more than one telephone number and so we'd like Presence to keep returning them.

For each new Telephone number we can add a new row to the datatable or add a new column (in the form of TEL_1,TEL_2 etc).

http://www.international-presence.com/images/docs/fileparser/fileparseroutput.png

Here are the results

http://www.international-presence.com/images/docs/fileparser/fileparserresults.png

Chars Before

Chars After

Chars Between

Chars At Positions