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Pierre Villard commented on NIFI-2072:
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[~jfrazee] I was looking at this JIRA and I agree that it would be a great
addition. However it seems this is not possible to get the group names from the
Pattern expression unless if we are going a bit nasty...
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15588903/get-group-names-in-java-regex
> Support named captures in ExtractText
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> Key: NIFI-2072
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-2072
> Project: Apache NiFi
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Joey Frazee
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> 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.
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