{"id":1261,"date":"2006-01-04T11:50:54","date_gmt":"2006-01-04T11:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/en1\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2013-02-27T11:58:15","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T11:58:15","slug":"regular-expression-matching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/en1\/regular-expression-matching\/","title":{"rendered":"Regular Expression Matching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new feature in Version 6.2.0 is Regular Expression matching, but what does it mean and what use is it?<\/p>\n<p>A regular expression is a pattern that can be used to match against a barcode string. For example, if you set the Pattern property to &#8220;^ABC[0-9]+XYZ$&#8221; then the toolkit will only report barcodes that start with &#8220;ABC&#8221;, followed by one or more digits and end with &#8220;XYZ&#8221;. This useful because you can reduce the chance\u00a0of false positive readings or ignore barcodes from other sources. If you know the format of the barcode string you expect then it&#8217;s always worth setting this property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new feature in Version 6.2.0 is Regular Expression matching, but what does it mean and what use is it? A regular expression is a pattern that can be used to match against a barcode string. For example, if you set the Pattern property to &#8220;^ABC[0-9]+XYZ$&#8221; then the toolkit will only report barcodes that start<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/en1\/regular-expression-matching\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1588,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261\/revisions\/1588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bardecode.com\/en1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}