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The Advanced filter lets you construct Fields for reporting from one or two existing Fields. Use POSIX
regular expressions and corresponding variables to capture all or parts of Fields and combine the result
in any order you wish. For general information on how filtering works, read About Filters.
An Advanced Filter takes up to two fields, Field A and Field B, to construct the Output Field. The Extract
A expression is applied to Field A, and the Extract B expression is applied to Field B. These expressions
can use complete or partial text matches and include wildcards. The following is a list of the most
common wildcards and their meanings. The expressions conform to POSIX regular expressions.
Wildcard Meaning
.

match any single character

match zero or more of the previous item

match one or more of the previous item

match zero or one of the previous item

()

remember contents of parenthesis as item

[]

match one item in this list

create a range in a list

or

match to the beginning of the field

match to the end of the field

escape any of the above

Use the parenthesis () to capture parts of the Fields. These can be referenced in the Constructor using
the $A1, $A2, $B1, $B2 notation. The $A or $B refers to the Field, and the number refers to which
parenthesis to grab. In the above example, the entire Field A and the entire Field B are captured and
assembled as the new field. The Output to Field can be a separate field or the same field as Field A or
Field B.
Controls
The Override Output Field option lets you decide what to do if the Output to Field already exists. The
Field x Required option lets you decide what to do if one of the expressions does not match. Finally,
Case Sensitive indicates whether the data must match the strings with exact capitalization.
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