About Masks - trillium_discovery - trillium_quality - Latest

Trillium Control Center

Product type
Software
Portfolio
Verify
Product family
Trillium
Product
Trillium > Trillium Discovery
Version
Latest
Language
English
Product name
Trillium Quality and Discovery
Title
Trillium Control Center
Copyright
2024
First publish date
2008
Last updated
2024-10-18
Published on
2024-10-18T15:02:04.502478

A mask is a description of a word, phrase, or number that identifies each character as alphabetic, numeric, or a special character. Masks use the following notation conventions:

A

Indicates character is an alphabetic letter (a-z or A-Z)

N

Indicates character is a numeral (0-9)

<special_char>

Represents a special character, such as @, &, %, or punctuation, exactly as it appears in the word or phrase

A special character (a character that is not a number or a letter) is shown exactly as it appears in the data value, including spaces. Special characters include forward slash (/), at symbol (@), percent (%), and so on.

Masks are used to parse addresses and other data in TS Quality data process functions. They are used in the Transformer Table Recode function and therefore are important if you are working with Quality data files.

You can generate tables of recode masks that you can use with Transformer functions.