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Pattern Tokenizeredit

A tokenizer of type pattern that can flexibly separate text into terms via a regular expression. Accepts the following settings:

Setting Description

pattern

The regular expression pattern, defaults to \\W+.

flags

The regular expression flags.

group

Which group to extract into tokens. Defaults to -1 (split).

IMPORTANT: The regular expression should match the token separators, not the tokens themselves.

group set to -1 (the default) is equivalent to "split". Using group >= 0 selects the matching group as the token. For example, if you have:

pattern = \\'([^\']+)\\'
group   = 0
input   = aaa 'bbb' 'ccc'

the output will be two tokens: bbb and ccc (including the ' marks). With the same input but using group=1, the output would be: bbb and ccc (no ' marks).

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