User-Defined Synthetic Data Format

Created by David Rumley, Modified on Wed, 10 Apr at 11:56 AM by David Rumley

When creating a synthetic datasource, the user may add common field formats like:

  1. First Name
  2. LastName
  3. Email Address
  4. Domain
  5. Web Site
  6. City
  7. State
  8. Street Name
  9. Verb
  10. Noun
  11. Adjective
  12. Adverb
  13. Integer
  14. Decimal
  15. Letter
  16. Date
  17. SSN
  18. User-Defined


Suppose you want to create an Address in a field like: "1234 Mockingbird St.".


For this, you could use a User-Defined field Type, and compose a custom format for the data substitutions.  The format can be defined by using:

  1. # - for digits
  2. T - for capital letters
  3. t - for lowercase letters

For example:

#### Ttttttttt S\t.



Notice that I used \t to generate a lowercase t every time in the abbreviation for Street "St.".  So, the "####" generates 4 random digits.  The "T" generates a single capital letter.  The "tttttttt" generates 8 random lower case letters.  Then , as mentioned, "S\t." generates "St." every time.


This will yield random data values similar to the following:


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