Insert a dictionary

Dictionaries can supplement format definitions by providing a list of words to search for and in some situations, to replace.

For example, a format definition requires a list of unique cost codes to be specified as possible search values. The list would be too long to add to format definition, so you can insert a dictionary containing the codes instead.

Another example would be a dictionary set up to replace month names. So "January" maps to "01", "February" maps to "02", and so forth through "December" that maps to "12". You can then add a format definition using that dictionary to capture the day and year, enabling "January 3, 2013" to be returned as "01 3, 2013".

To insert a dictionary into an existing format definition, you need to add the dictionary to the project using the dictionary settings. If the project already includes the dictionary, you do not need to add it again.

When using a dictionary as part of a regular expression, if the Ignore Blanks setting is selected, it does not ignore spaces that are long enough to be classified as a tab. As a result, if your regular expression does not return the results you expect, the space left or right of the dictionary match might be big enough to be considered a tab, so consider adding a \t? to your expression.

You can insert a dictionary by following these steps: