You can define the anchors in the example source document. The Parser learns how to parse the document by examining the anchors and the delimiters that separate them. For more information about delimiters, see Formats Overview.

For example, suppose you have specified that your document uses a tab-delimited format. A line in the example source reads

where

<tab>

is a tab character.

You can define

First name:

as a

Marker

anchor. You can define

Ron

as a

Content

anchor. The Parser learns from these definitions that it should search a source document for the string

First name:

. It should then skip over a single tab delimiter and retrieve the text that follows the tab.

Suppose you run the Parser on another source document, which contains the following text:

The Parser finds the anchors as above and retrieves the text

Jack

.

Now suppose that the source document reads:

The Parser still retrieves the text

Jack

, rather than

Jack<tab>Age<tab>34

. This works because you have defined the tab character as a delimiter. The Script understands that the

Content

anchor starts after the first tab and ends before the second tab. Of course, you might define additional anchors that retrieve Jack's age, which is

34

.