Example: pattern matching in the Acct Info field


The Rule Processor treats each word of the Accounting Information (Acct Info) field separately.

Words of accounting information are denoted by commas. For example, if the job card has the following accounting information:

(3912,PROD,AAO)

the Rule Processor would process 3912, PROD, and AAO separately.

The following table shows examples of how you might try to fill in the pattern matching fields and which variations would create matching results.


Character

String pattern

Results

(3912,PROD,AAO)

*

Match

(3912,PROD,AAO)

*, PROD

Match

(3912,PROD,AAO)

*, PROD, *

Match

(3912,PROD,AAO)

3912,*,AAO

Match

(3912,PROD,AAO)

3*,P*,A*

Match

(3912,PROD,AAO)

PROD

No Match

 The following table shows some additional examples of pattern matches.


Character string

Pattern

Results

ABCDEF

ABC++F

Match

ABCDEF

ABC+F

No match

ABCDEF

A*

Match

ABCDEF

*D+F

Match

ABCDEF

A+C*

Match

ABCDEF

A*F

Match

ABCDEF

A*+F

Match

ABCDEF

A+FF

No match

ABCDEF

A*BCDEF

Match

ABCDEF

A+B*

No match

ABCDEF

'A*BCDEF'

No match

ABCDEF

¬XYZ

Match

ABCDEF

¬*BCD*

No match

 

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