[jira] [Commented] (NIFI-2071) Support repeating capture groups in ExtractText

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ASF GitHub Bot commented on NIFI-2071:
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GitHub user pvillard31 opened a pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/1050

    NIFI-2071 - Support repeating capture groups in ExtractText

    

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    $ git pull https://github.com/pvillard31/nifi NIFI2071

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    https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/1050.patch

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commit 1c30a97b404b10629317cf3ab928925eaad3e73e
Author: Pierre Villard <pi...@gmail.com>
Date:   2016-09-22T18:43:42Z

    NIFI-2071 - Support repeating capture groups in ExtractText

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> Support repeating capture groups in ExtractText
> -----------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: NIFI-2071
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-2071
>             Project: Apache NiFi
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Joey Frazee
>
> ExtractText doesn't currently support repeating capture groups so any repeating patterns have to specified by hand and can only be repeated a fixed number of times.
> I think this is because it only uses find() and not findAll() in its pattern matching [1].
> 1. https://github.com/apache/nifi/blob/1bd2cf0d09a7111bcecffd0f473aa71c25a69845/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-standard-bundle/nifi-standard-processors/src/main/java/org/apache/nifi/processors/standard/ExtractText.java#L324



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