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* cited by examiner
Primary Examiner—Doug Hutton
Assistant Examiner—Nathan Hillery
(74) Attorney, Agent, or Firm—Lee & Hayes, PLLC
(57) ABSTRACT
The techniques and mechanisms described herein are directed at converting text into objects based on a template that describes the format of the text. The objects then being available for further processing. The conversion mechanism converts the text into an object having at least one method that is directly invocable and that is specific to a data type specified for the live object. The template comprises an object header indicator and a corresponding object header pattern. A new object is created whenever the object header pattern is identified within the text. In addition, the template comprises one or more field indicators each having a corresponding field pattern. The field pattern is in a format of a regular expression. A new field is created for the new object whenever a field pattern is identified within the text.
28 Claims, 6 Drawing Sheets
