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Pattern Match is an Extractor Type found in Grooper. This extractor primarily uses regular expression (regex) for general data extraction.

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Pattern Match is one of the most commonly used extractors for general data. As per its name, it extracts data from a document matching a regex pattern entered into Value Pattern.

This extractor can be useful when you want to extract text data matching a particular pattern across a document, such as dates or social security numbers. For example, the format MM/DD/YYYY can be matched with the regex pattern \d{2}/\d{2}/\d{4}.

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-<blockquote>Pattern Match is a type of data extraction found in Grooper. It is one of the most commonly used extractors for general data.</blockquote>
+<blockquote>'''''Pattern Match''''' is an '''''Extractor Type''''' found in Grooper. This extractor primarily uses regular expression (regex) for general data extraction.</blockquote>
 == About ==
-'''''Pattern Match''''' is an extractor type used by Grooper software. As per its name, it extracts pieces of data that match the pattern of text entered into the Expression Editor. This is accomplished through a mix of alphanumeric text, and regex (aaa will match aaa, Dogs will match just Dogs, or both Dogs and dogs depending on Case Sensitivity, ''\d{3}'' will match groups of exactly three digits). Note that with '''''Pattern Match''''', ''Regular Expression Syntax'' (found in the ''Vocabulary'' section in the ''Properties'' tab of the ''Extractor Editor'') does not need to be turned on, as the extractor will match regex automatically. Pattern Match can be useful when you want to extract certain pieces of data across a document, or multiple documents, such as dates or social security numbers.
+'''''Pattern Match''''' is one of the most commonly used extractors for general data. As per its name, it extracts data from a document matching a regex pattern entered into Value Pattern.
+This extractor can be useful when you want to extract text data matching a particular pattern across a document, such as dates or social security numbers. For example, the format MM/DD/YYYY can be matched with the regex pattern <code>\d{2}/\d{2}/\d{4}</code>.