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Otto Fowler commented on NIFI-2072: ----------------------------------- I'm more inclined to do the validation, since it think handling mixed, and scoped ( nested ) etc goes downhill real fast since java doesn't support it. Would would be nice is when I called group(string) i could also call getGroupIndex(string) so that I could mix and match, but you can't. > Support named captures in ExtractText > ------------------------------------- > > Key: NIFI-2072 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-2072 > Project: Apache NiFi > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Joey Frazee > Assignee: Otto Fowler > Priority: Major > Labels: extracttext > > ExtractText currently captures and creates attributes using numeric indices > (e.g, attribute.name.0, attribute.name.1, etc.) whether or not the capture > groups are named, i.e., patterns like (?<name>\w+). > In addition to being more faithful to the provided regexes, named captures > could help simplify data flows because you wouldn't have to add superfluous > UpdateAttribute steps which are just renaming the indexed captures to more > interpretable names. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.3.4#803005)