Character Pattern Types - trillium_discovery - 17.1

Character Pattern Example

The value Jane Smith has the pattern a4_a5, and the value 04/15/2016 has the value d2Sd2Sd4. The Jane Smith value shares the a4_a5 pattern with any two-word phrase that is separated by a space (represented by an underscore), the first word consisting of four alphabetic characters, and the second word consisting of five alphabetic characters. The date pattern d2Sd2Sd4 is a pattern for any date which uses the format mm/dd/yyyy.

Character Pattern Types

A repository administrator configures character patterns to be one of the following types for all data in a repository:

• Default
• Rich
• Long
• Greek
• Hebrew
• Turkish

Default

Rich

The rich pattern code uses a short-hand notation to describe the shape of a value. It is useful for identifying the shapes of names, addresses, dates, currency, and simple numeric values that include plus (+) or minus (-) signs. This pattern style distinguishes between upper- and lowercase letters.

Table 2. Rich pattern code

Code	Represents…
l	lowercase alpha
u	uppercase alpha
d	digit
p	punctuation
q	Apostrophe ('), double quote ("), Single quote (`)
S	symbol
_	space
z	null
.	unprintable
m	currency
+	plus sign
-	minus sign or dash

Example:

Value	Pattern Shape
Jane Smith	ul3_ul4
5.00E+02	dSd2u+d2
$400.00	md3Sd2
05/31/2016	d2Sd2Sd4
jane_smith@abc.com	l4Sl5pl3Sl3

Long

The long pattern code uses a long-hand notation that identifies a character as either alphabetic (alpha) or numeric (digit), and displays all other characters exactly as they display in the value. For example, Jane Smith is represented as aaaa aaaaa, but $440.40 is represented as $nnn.nn.

Table 3. Long pattern code

Code	Represents…
A	alpha
N	numeric (digit)
Any non-alpha or non-digit character displays exactly as it appears in the value.