Adam, We really should just allow it to be configurable. We tend to be conservative on such cases but you should have control. Interested in filing a JIRA?
Thanks Joe On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Adam Williams <aaronfwilli...@outlook.com> wrote: > I've been playing with the ExtractText processor and added lots of capturing > groups, for a single property i split into ~50 capturing groups, but the > processor shows a warning that we can only have between 1 & 40 capturing > groups. Is it wrong to go over this? Just parsing a wide CSV file with a > regex, but I've thought of modifying the > StandardValidators.createRegexValidator from 40 to 50 for now in the below > class and rebuilding. > > https://github.com/apache/nifi/blob/f044ba5d45150a0d17990b4c1a304fbbdf35a010/nifi-nar-bundles/nifi-standard-bundle/nifi-standard-processors/src/main/java/org/apache/nifi/processors/standard/ExtractText.java