10.3 Extract Materials Processor

The Extract Materials processor is designed to extract potential materials (wood, metal, cotton, etc) from an input string. It produces two outputs, the original material as extracted and a standardized version of this material.

Table 10-8 Input Attributes

Attribute Name	Data Type	Description	Mandatory
Input String	String	The input to extract from	Y

Table 10-9 Output Attributes

Attribute Name	Data Type	Description
StandardizedMaterials	String Array	Standardized Materials as relating to the extracted original Materials.
OriginalMaterials	String Array	Original Materials as extracted from the input.
RemainingInput	String	Any of the input string which was not extracted as a Material.
Input.Standardized	String	This is a copy of the input string, its inclusion is an artefact of how published processors work.
AttributesExtractedFlag	String (Y/N) (Flag)	Whether any materials were extracted from this record - Yes (Y) or No (N).

Table 10-10 Options

Option Name	Data Type	Default	Description
Materials	Reference Data	Profile – Product Data – Materials	The Materials to extract, contains a lookup column with the original material to look for in the input string and a standardized version of that material.