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The Text Data Bank can extract values from any text content (including plain text, HTML, XML, etc.). You can specify left- and right-hand boundaries that mark the beginning and end of the extracted text. Characters between the values specified in the left- and right-hand fields will be extracted. It is useful when you want to extract plain text (e.g., for use in another tool or configuration panel), and cannot use other extraction tools such as the Browser Data Bank, XML Data Bank, JSON Data Bank, and so forth. This tool is also used in configuring functional web tests for load testing as described in Preparing Web Functional Tests for Load Testing.The Text Data Bank tool is typically configured as an output of another tool (most commonly, a Browser Playback or Message Responder tool) that delivers text output. In this case, the Text Data Bank’s Text Content area will be populated with the text output of the chained tool after tool execution completes. Alternatively, you can create a "standalone" tool using the Text Data Bank tool, then specify a file that contains the desired text content (for instance, a log file or other file that is dynamically updated or created during every tool run).

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Enable the Remove tabs and newline characters before processing option to normalize whitespace in extracted text. This option is enabled by default.

Viewing the Data Bank Variables Used During Tool Execution

You can configure the Console view (Window> Show View> Console) to display the data bank variables used during tool execution. For details, see Monitoring Variable Usage.